While Universal is delaying their newly launched Monsters universe, Twentieth Century Fox is already preparing their own release of Frankenstein, based on the 1818 Marry Shelley novel.
Now titled Victor Frankenstein, there’s a lot to be excited about here. First and foremost, the pic stars James McAvoy as the title character. McAvoy is easily one of the best actors around, and in my opinion is one of the sole reasons the newest X-Men movies are so damn good. Second, Harry Potter, Horns and The Woman In Black‘s Daniel Radcliffe is the newest Igor, the hunchback assistant to Dr. Frankenstein. Let’s be honest, Radcliffe has shown he’s not just a kid who got a lucky break in looking exactly like Harry Potter, he’s grown to become quite the actor. And finally, Bloody Disgusting has been hearing really good things about this movie, penned by Max Landis (Chronicle). Like, really, really good things.
In theaters October 2, 2015, Empire has scored the first ever look at the film directed by Paul McGuigan, and also starring Mark Gatiss, Jessica Brown Findlay and Andrew Scott.
Told from Igor’s perspective, we see the troubled young assistant’s dark origins, his redemptive friendship with the young medical student Viktor Von Frankenstein, and become eyewitnesses to the emergence of how Frankenstein became the man – and the legend – we know today.
