Movies
Full Cast for “The Frankenstein Chronicles”
Deadline landed the cast for “The Frankenstein Chronicles”, all of who will star alongside Games of Thrones'” Sean Bean.
Anna Maxwell Martin (Philomena, “The Bletchley Circle”), Charlie Creed-Miles (“Peaky Blinders”), Ed Stoppard (“The Musketeers”), Elliot Cowan (“Da Vinci’s Demons”), Hugh O’Conor (Killing Bono), Joe Tucker (Bronson), Kate Dickie (“Game of Thrones”), Lalor Roddy (Hunger), Patrick Fitzsymons (“Game of Thrones”), Richie Campbell (“Inspector Lewis”), Robbie Gee (“Young Dracula”), Ryan Sampson (“Doctor Who”), Samuel West (“Mr Selfridge”), Shaun Mason (“Cilla”), Steve Wilson (“Ripper Street”), Steven Berkoff (“Witches of East End”), Stuart Graham (“The Fall”), Tom Ward (“Death Comes to Pemberley”), and Vanessa Kirby (Everest) have all joined the cast.
“Set in 1827 London, the drama begins when Home Secretary Sir Robert Peel recruits Inspector John Marlott (Bean) after a successful operation to apprehend a gang of opium smugglers. When Marlott makes the shocking discovery of a corpse that’s actually a crude assembly of body parts arranged in a grotesque parody of a human form, he is tasked by Peel with tracking the perpetrator. As he investigates, Marlott discovers that what he’s dealing with is more horrific than he could possibly have imagined.“
The series hails from Emmy-nominated director and writer Benjamin Ross (RKO 281, The Young Poisoner’s Handbook) and writer Barry Langford (Torte Bluma). It will air on ITV’s subscription channel ITV Encore, the first original drama for the pay outlet since it launched in 2014.
Shooting starts in Northern Ireland on January 26th.
In the wake of Backrooms and Obsession, everyone is prowling YouTube for horror shorts to adapt and horror filmmakers to scoop up, so don’t be surprised to see a whole bunch of upcoming articles about YouTube success stories crossing over into theaters. One horror short that’s already been picked up for expansion is Dolly director Rod Blackhurst’s Alone Time.
The 12-minute short was uploaded in 2014 and has amassed nearly 2 million views at the time of this article being written, and Deadline reports that it’s getting a feature adaptation.
Witchcraft Motion Picture Company & Fever Dream will turn the viral short into a feature film.
Alone Time follows Ann Saunders, a young NY professional whose carefully constructed life begins to unravel following a devastating personal loss. “Seeking refuge from a collapsing relationship, a deteriorating family situation, and mounting emotional trauma, Ann reluctantly joins her closest friend on a remote camping trip deep in the Adirondack wilderness.”
The synopsis continues, “When her friend mysteriously disappears, Ann becomes convinced that an unseen figure is stalking her through the forest. What begins as a survival nightmare slowly transforms into something far more disturbing as fractured memories, conflicting realities, and hidden truths force Ann to confront the possibility that the greatest threat may not be lurking in the woods at all, but buried deep within her own psych.”
“Alone Time has quietly followed me for over a decade,” director Rod Blackhurst said in a statement. “What began as a short film about isolation and the weight of life now feels more relevant than ever. The original short found its audience organically online long before that was considered a legitimate path for filmmakers. Bringing it to life as a feature allows us to explore those themes on a much larger and more psychologically unsettling canvas.”
Blackhurst is directing the feature length expansion.
You can watch the original Alone Time short film below.