Apparently there’s a hot new movie monster in Hollywood, and his name is Frankenstein. According to Deadline, Sam Raimi’s Ghost House Pictures is firing up the laboratory to create The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein, based on the Peter Acrkroyd novel with a script by Pulitzer Prize winning playwright David Auburn. Meanwhile, Summit Entertainment, the studio behind the terrifying Twilight series, is ready to curdle our blood again with the absurdly titled Dark Endeavor: The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein. It’s an adaptation of a novel by Kenneth Oppel and will hopefully have the shiniest Frankenstein monster to date.
Not enough Frankenstein for you? Not to worry, Universal is still actively developing Guillermo Del Toro’s Frankie film, there’s a contemporary take set up at Columbia, and even Slash from Gun’s n’ Roses has his finger in the Frankenstein pie with Wake the Dead, which is based on a Steve Niles graphic novel. Expect to be up to your eyeballs in Frankenstein by 2013, provided these projects are all brought to life.
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Bring in Branagh to play the good doctor, or else risk losing my interest, Rami!
Here’s a bag of Rock Salt!!
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Why on Earth would you want that again? A) It’s been done. B) It sucked and C) Just, no.
The fact that Del Toro’s version still has Universal’s support is good. The rest I can take or leave, but it’s still a nice change-up from the slew of zombie and vampire stuff.
Unless it’s been shit-canned, isn’t there also that series of Dean Koontz Frankenstein books in development to be a movie or tv show or some kind of destined for terrible adaptation of some kind?
Fuck Dean Koontz. Ressurect James Whale for a threequel or I give zero minus two fucks.
What an erudite comment. Well done me.
It was originally a TV show, Kootz was one of the showrunners or what have you, which sucked so bad Kootz went ahead and wrote the novels instead. Parker Posey paid the feisty hot cop IIRC.
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