The seemingly unstoppable producer/director Timur Bekmambetov is apparently attached to his 500th project, adding his name to an adaption of Peter Ackroyd’s literary-tweaking novel The Casebook Of Victor Frankenstein.
Production Weekly has tweeted (via Coming Soon) that Bekmambetov is rumoured as the latest talent on board the developing film, which already boasts playwright and sometimes screenwriter David Auburn on adaptation duty.
And the plot? Featuring a friendship between Oxford students Victor Frankenstein and Percy Bysshe Shelley, the story sees the pair engaged in a heated debate about religion, science and life, which drives the young scientist to become obsessed with reanimating corpses.
He starts out with bodies supplied by the coroner, but dissatisfied with the quality of the stiffs, he forges a dangerous alliance with a group known as the Doomsday men, who are very interested in his work. And of course, we all know what Victor’s experiment’s lead to…
Ackroyd’s book is written in period prose, and boasts a somewhat controversial ending (no, we won’t spoil it here). For now, we’ll wait and see if this one actually shambles on to the screen.