Ryan Rotten’s one of the best people I have come to know in my time in Los Angeles. A great guy, a straight shooter and a trusted friend, Ryan’s one of those guys you’re not supposed to meet in Hollywood – and he’s definitely the sort of guy who is not supposed to make it big. But here he is, making real moves as a producer on a movie called I, Frankenstein with the people at Lakeshore.
Based on a comic book, I, Frankenstein finds the Monster a private eye and Dracula a crime boss. The film will be written by Kevin Grievoux, co-creator of the Underworld films. Patrick Tatapolous, the FX superstar, will be directing. Also executive producing is IESB.net’s Robert Sanchez, who has been making major strides into film production the last few years.
The film may shoot this July. Best of luck to Ryan and Robert.
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"Ryan Rotten's one of the best people I have come to know in my time in Los Angeles."
Name irony FTW!
I, Frankenstein finds the Monster a private eye and Dracula a crime boss.
He may be a good movie but his movie sounds worse than sphincter-cancer.
What?
I think it was supposed to read 'He may be a good PERSON…'. Movie actually sounds cool. Pity about the director…
FX superstar? Isn't Tatopoulos better known as a production designer?
Frankenstein…a what? Dracula…a who? What the fuck? That's more retarded than my hydrocephalic little brother. Maybe he could be cast as the femme fatale.
I just wanted to commend Devin for making one of the funniest article titles I've seen in awhile. I haven't laughed that hard at something stupid in awhile
"So, let's make a movie where Frankenstein's monster is a private detective and Dracula is a crime boss…" What?! And why is it called "I, Frankenstein"? The monster's name wasn't Frankenstein.
Sounds great … for a Saturday morning kids' show. Larry Talbot can be the troubled manager of the local dog pound, the Hunchback is a troubled local priest and the Invisible Man works for a shady government agency. Yeah, this'll be good. What's Fred Grandy up to these days?
While I think the premise is cool (I'm a sucker for monsters and crime noir, so, this sounds like a win-win to me), I have to agree with comment #9. The title makes little to no sense and despite the concept, if the monster calls himself Frankenstein, I'll find that the silliest part.
re: #4,5. Yup, brain fart, #5 got it right. So did I, ten seconds after I posted it, at which point the CHUD gods decided I am forbidden from editing my comment or making further comments until I change my goddamn IP address or go home from work. But to expound on my original comment, do you guys really think this idea sounds good? "Frankenstein"('s Monster – ed.) is now a private eye in a "film noir" (god I wish this term wasn't thrown around so willy nilly, although the private dick helps qualify it) where Dracula is a crime boss? This has horrible written all over it. Are we so quick to forget crap like VAN HELSING, LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN, TWILIGHT, UNDERWORLD (sharing a producer, naturally) etc etc? Enough with the tired old monsters already. Vampires and "Frankensteins" and Werewolves and whatever. Listen Hollywood, you can't just use this shit like Duplo to build your crappy unoriginal movies. If this movie turns out to be really smart I will eat my hat, who knows, maybe it's just sneaking past some aggressively retarded executive by sounding utterly devoid of creativity, but they're secretly making the Maltese Falcon of "Frankenstein" movies. That seems to be how the studios operate these days, filmmakers have to sneak legitimate cinema in through a fucking board game or a Viewmaster or a remake of a movie or concept that was fine to begin with, as long as there's a gimmicky franchise involved. I know Frankenstein and Dracula have long legacies, but enough with the re-envisioning garbage. Despite all this there isn't even a decent Frankenstein movie that's genuinely faithful to Shelly's book, the closest made is Kenneth Branagh's obnoxious ego stroke of an adaptation.
I'm all for anything that Ryan Rotten is involved with.
For all the hate here, has anyone read or even seen the comic? Just a thought I know anyone can screw-up source material.
Devin's Name-Drop-A-Palooza #4.567
If Victor Frankenstein was the monsters "father" that kind of makes the monster Frankenstein does it not?
Ryan Rotten is a really nice guy, I have met him in real life too. I loved the artwork form the comic, The story was a little meh, but if they can capture the art style I think the movie could be pretty cool. And hey, one can always hope for story improvements in the translation from pamphlet to screen.
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