Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is certainly en vogue in Hollywood right now. It seems like you can’t turn around without bumping into another Frankenstein film in development and 20th Century Fox is no different in cooking up its own take on the classic horror tale.
According to Variety, 20th Century Fox has tapped Max Landis (Chronicle) to write the screenplay for their untitled Frankenstein project. No director is currently attached to the project though the studio has been courting David Yates (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows), Paul Greengrass (The Bourne Ultimatum), and Ron Howard (The Dark Tower).
Not much more is known about this particular Frankenstein project save that Davis Entertainment will be producing. Take a gander at some of the other Frankenstein projects under development right now:
- Wake The Dead, a film adaptation of Steve Niles’ graphic novels who just nabbed Haley Joel Osment to star in the modern day Frankenstein tale,
- Guillermo del Toro’s reimaging of the classic horror tale with Universal,
- Ghost House Pictures and RT Features’ adaptation of Peter Ackroyd‘s novel The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein with Timur Bekmambetov helming this prequel
- Summit Entertaiment’s prequel This Dark Endeavor: The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein adapted from Kenneth Oppel’s novel
- Lakeshore Entertainment’s I, Frankenstein, a modern take on the classic story with Stuart Beattie as writer and director,
- Dean Koontz’s adaptation of his modern take Frankenstein: Prodigal Son,
- Sony’s untitled modernized Frankenstein film with Craig Fernandez’s script,
- Tim Burton’s stop motion Frankenweenie.
