Monday
06Oct2008
Guillermo del Toro Promises New Vision of 'Frankenstein'
Monday, October 6, 2008 at 11:40AM
We know that
Guillermo del
Toro is off to make a couple of
Hobbit movies, and then after that,
his dance
card is punched until 2017 by Universal. He's remaking
Slaughterhouse-Five, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and even
Frankenstein. 
Even still, that would be the worst case scenario for all of these movies. But del Toro already has a few new wrinkles he wants to add to Frankenstein, as he revealed recently to Coming Soon.
"I’m not doing Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein. I’m doing an adventure story that involves the creature. I cannot say much, but it’s not the central creation story, I’m not worried about that. The fact is I’ve been dreaming of doing a Frankenstein movie since I was a child. The one thing I can promise is, compared to Kenneth Branagh, I will not appear shirtless in the movie!"
See, already this movie has a saving grace.
I love the old monster movies from the 1930s, and I hope this one remembers enough about them. Next year's The Wolf Man appears to be on the right track, so maybe that'll be the standard for these things down the road.
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