 Universal also submitted Sheriff 's first draft to the PCA on September 5 , 1935 and encountered stronger resistance from PCA enforcer Joseph Breen than it had from the British . Breen reported back that the script " contains countless offensive stuff which makes the picture utterly impossible for approval under the Production Code . " A second draft was submitted on October 21 , but it too was rejected , with many of Breen 's objections centering on the 14th Century scenes in which Dracula himself appeared . It is unclear whether this submission was the same submission that the BBFC had previously passed . A third Sheriff draft was submitted on October 24 and Sherriff 's fourth and final draft on November 10 . All remained unacceptable , and Whale biographer James Curtis suggests that Whale , who had no interest in the project and feared that his commitment to it might cost him control over the filming of Show Boat , encouraged Sherriff to submit ever more wildly unacceptable versions in hopes of getting himself off the film . On January 14 , 1936 , producer E. M. Asher advised Breen that the Sherriff script was not going to be used and that a new script would be put together from scratch . Screenwriting duties were assigned to Garrett Fort . 
