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Fantastic ‘Frankenstein’ Casting Electrocutes My Attention!
“Shameless” star James McAvoy – who blew my mind with his show-stealing portrayal of Professor X in X-Men: First Class – has been tapped by Twentieth Century Fox to play Victor Von Frankenstein in their latest adaptation of the Marry Shelley novella, Deadline reports.
Fox’s search for the right actor to play Victor Von Frankenstein alongside Daniel Radliffe’s Igor in the Paul McGuigan-directed Frankenstein has ended. The studio has chosen McAvoy and the dealmaking is underway. This was a coveted role, says the site, and the studio recently tested actors that included “Boardwalk Empire‘s” Jack Huston, and Toby Kebbell, whose breakout was the Guy Ritchie-directed RocknRolla.
The film is scheduled for release on October 17, 2014.
The classic murder-mystery game Clue is headed back to screens both big and small, with Variety reporting this week that Sony is planning potential film and television adaptations.
Variety reports, “Hasbro Entertainment has closed a deal with Sony‘s TriStar Pictures and Sony Pictures Television for the film and TV rights for the beloved board game.”
“Sony is the perfect partner to adapt a property as culturally impactful and mystery-defining as ‘Clue,’” said Hasbro’s Zev Foreman and Gabriel Marano. “Nicole Brown, Katherine Pope, and their teams are tremendous creative collaborators and ideal partners to help us figure out after 75 years if it was Colonel Mustard in the conservatory with the candlestick.”
Clue was created way back in 1943 by Anthony E. Pratt, and the board game was of course notably turned into a feature film starring Tim Curry in 1985 and a mini-series in 2011.
Ryan Reynolds had more recently been attached to star in a remake for 20th Century Studios, while Fox Entertainment had been developing an animated series a few years back.
You can learn all about the making of the original Clue film in Who Done It: The Clue Documentary, which is now streaming on the Bloody Disgusting-powered SCREAMBOX!
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