New "Frankenstein" Films

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Remember when Frankenstein was a brutal killing machine cobbled together from the limbs of the dead? Remember when he was a lumbering weapon of awesome destruction? Remember when he was the lead in that whimsical romantic comedy?

Word is out today from Variety that Fox 2000 has tagged Enchanted filmmaker Kevin Lima for a "romantic" take on the classic character to be called, hold your heart, Frank.

Offical synopsis states:

"Story centers on a teenage prodigy who's on the cutting edge of cell research in medical school and is encouraged by her guidance counselor to take a break from the lab and make some friends. After several unsuccessful attempts at socializing with her peers, she decides to use her scientific prowess and piece together a friend out of the med school's instructional cadavers."

So...who's laughing?

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Weird Science redux.

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A Frankenstein meets Twilight flick? No thanks.....

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Makes me think a little bit, of the movie........(Highlight below. Slasherman would put me on ignore)

May (2002)

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whatever happend to slasherman? i've not seen him pop up in months (maybe years)

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Lakeshore, the production-financing outfit behind the “Underworld” movie series, is readying what it hopes will be its next action-horror franchise, “I, Frankenstein.”

The company has preemptively picked up the script for the comic book adaptation from Death Ray Films, which began developing the project in April.

The project has “Underworld” roots. It’s based on a comic from “Underworld” co-creator Kevin Grevioux, who wrote the script for “Frankenstein,” and “Underworld: Rise of the Lycans” helmer Patrick Tatopoulos is attached to direct.

The project brings together classic monster characters — including the Frankenstein monster and Dracula — in a contemporary film noir setting.

The monster, for example, has evolved; he has learned how to control his anger and is a private investigator. Dracula, meanwhile, is a crime kingpin. The story sees the monster as the only thing standing between the human race and an uprising of supernatural creatures.

Lakeshore's Tom Rosenberg, Gary Lucchesi and Richard Wright are producing. Grevioux is exec producing with Death Ray’s Robert Sanchez. Chris Patton and Ryan Turek of horror Web site ShockTilYouDrop.com helped develop the project. A July start is being eyed.

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Producer Ralph Winter (The X-Men Trilogy, Star Treks III through VI) and Terry Botwick plan to turn Dean Koontz's Frankenstein books into a series of feature films.

The planned adaptations, developed through their 1019 Entertainment banner, will be a 21st Century take on the Mary Shelly monster. The movie will feature the doctor and his super-human original creation, called Deucalion, in modern-day New Orleans. The goal with these films is to create a movie franchise.

"These books have enough twists and turns to keep the public coming back to the theaters for many years to come," Winter and Botwick said.

Three titles in Koontz's series have been published, with the fourth scheduled for release in June. No word yet on a projected release date for the project.

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Timur Bekmambetov Directing Victor Frankenstein?
Source: Production Weekly
March 29, 2010


Production Weekly reports that Wanted helmer Timur Bekmambetov is attached to direct David Auburn's adaptation of Peter Ackroyd novel "Casebook of Victor Frankenstein."

Random House describes the book as follows:

When two nineteenth-century Oxford students—Victor Frankenstein, a serious researcher, and the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley—form an unlikely friendship, the result is a tour de force that could only come from one of the world's most accomplished and prolific authors.

This haunting and atmospheric novel opens with a heated discussion, as Shelley challenges the conventionally religious Frankenstein to consider his atheistic notions of creation and life. Afterward, these concepts become an obsession for the young scientist. As Victor begins conducting anatomical experiments to reanimate the dead, he at first uses corpses supplied by the coroner. But these specimens prove imperfect for Victor's purposes. Moving his makeshift laboratory to a deserted pottery factory in Limehouse, he makes contact with the Doomsday men—the resurrectionists—whose grisly methods put Frankenstein in great danger as he works feverishly to bring life to the terrifying creature that will bear his name for eternity.

Filled with literary lights of the day such as Bysshe Shelley, Godwin, Lord Byron, and Mary Shelley herself, and penned in period-perfect prose, The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein is sure to become a classic of the twenty-first century.

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yay no Baron Victor Von Frankenstein

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Sony Pictures is Resurrecting Frankenstein
Source: ShockTillYouDrop.com
December 2, 2010


Sony reps have confirmed to us that Craig Fernandez has pitched to the studio and is scripting a modern take on Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein."

The last time the monster surfaced in the halls of Sony was when Kenneth Branagh directed Mary Shelley's Frankenstein in 1994.

Fernandez's credits include the upcoming From Prada to Nada and Everything Must Go. No other details regarding his take on the classic Shelley tale have been revealed at this time.


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