Whose the hottest guy in Hollywood these days - A scruffy Irishman with a taste for booze, fags and women? A lithe Englishman with angelic elf features? Nope - rather a nearly 200 year old creation of an unstable doctor who himself came out of one Englishwoman's imaginative mind.
As if the appearance of Frankenstein's monster in the upcoming "Van Helsing", or the Dean Koontz/Martin Scorsese contemporary small screen update of the tale for the USA network later this year wasn't enough, today's <a href="http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117899525?categoryid=13&cs=1" target="_blank">Variety</a> reports that yet another take on the legend is about to get underway.
Universal are in negotiations with Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini, the writing team behind "American Splendor" to rewrite and direct a remake of "Bride of Frankenstein" for Universal Pictures, and to be produced by Imagine Entertainment's Brian Grazer.
The pair aren't the first to have a crack at remaking the 1935 James Whale cinematic classic which had Boris Karloff and Elsa Lanchester in the main roles. However other writers have been delivering a "futuristic FX-driven actioner tack", whereas these two are starting from scratch on a character-driven horror script more in the psychological horror sense ala classics like "Rosemary's Baby".
This 'Bride' is set in contemporary Gotham, centered on a young woman attending college. After being haunted by someone else's memories, she gradually discovers that she died and was then unnaturally brought back to life.
Despite it being produced by the same studio, this has no connection with Universal's "Van Helsing" other than the success of that film's director Stephen Sommers with his "Mummy" movies are what inspired the idea of redoing 'Bride' in the first place.
Thanks to 'KarlChilders'
