Wanted director Timur Bekmambetov is reported to be circling the adaptation of Peter Ackroyd’s ‘The Casebook Of Victor Frankenstein’, a literary reimagining of the classic Frankenstein story.
Coming Soon have announced that Bekmambetov is coming aboard the development, with playwright and screenwriter David Auburn already on adaptation duty.
The plot offers an intriguing twist to the original, it begins with the strained relationship between Oxford students Victor Frankenstein and Percy Bysshe Shelley who are embroiled in a heated debate about religion, science and life. The consequence is that the young scientist becomes obsessed with the reanimation of corpses in order to support his theories.
Beginning with a supply from the coroner, he becomes dissatisfied with the condition of his specimens on the slab. He forges a tempestuous relationship with the Doomsday men, who are intrigued with the progressions of the young student.
The end game as we know is common knowledge, but Ackroyd’s book boasts a somewhat controversial ending, [no spoilers]. Will the project reach the big screen, it all depends on the script, and there is certainly a market, the anticipation that follows said announcements is a mainstay, but also is the continuous relationship between hot anticipation and poor execution that disappoint on mass.
MATT RICHARDSON
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