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Of course UNIVERSAL'S redo of THE WOLFMAN is going to he huge. With the star power they have lined up and RICK BAKER handling the Wolf effects it couldn't get any better if they tried. So, betting on the for gone conclusion that WOLFY will be huge it only stands to reason that a remake of another UNIVERSAL classic horror tale should begin gearing up as soon as possible. And so it will.
THR dropped the news that BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN looks to be gearing up. Here's the report:
Universal and Imagine are breathing new life into Bride of Frankenstein."
The companies are in talks with Neil Burger to write and direct their
long-stirring remake of the 1935 monster movie. Burger, who would pen
the script with writing partner Dirk Wittenborn, most prominently wrote
and helmed The Illusionist, the Edward Norton magician mystery that
earned nearly $40 million for Yari Film Group in 2006.
James Whale’s Bride of Frankenstein, which starred Boris Karloff as
the monster and Elsa Lanchester as the titular bride, continued the
story that began with 1931’s “Frankenstein.” A monster, on the run from
an angry mob, has a series of adventures, and also persuades Dr.
Frankenstein to create a mate. The doctor is successful, but the bride
(who is not a central character) winds up rejecting the monster at the
end of the movie.
The CAA-repped Burger, who also penned and helmed Iraq-veteran pic The
Lucky Ones, is attached to direct Dark Fields, a thriller about a
slacker who discovers a drug that makes him sharper. That pic is also
set up at Universal, but progress has been slowed since star Shia
LaBeouf was forced to pull out last year with a hand injury.
Bride has had a series of stops and starts. About five years ago,
“American Splendor” scribes Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini
were attached to write the screenplay for the Uni/Imagine update. Their
concept was to set the picture in contemporary New York, with a young
woman dying and then unnaturally brought back to life (Burger’s version
is expected to differ significantly from that concept). Jacob Estes, a
writer on Spider-Man spinoff Venom, also at one point had been
attached to write a draft.
Brian Grazer and Sean Daniel will produce the pic; Karen Kehela, David Bernardi and Chris Wade will oversee for Imagine.
Universal is eager to develop reboots of its library of classic monster
titles, insiders in the development community said. It is developing a
new version of Creature from the Black Lagoon, the 1954 Jack Arnold
pic about a monstrous fish that a group of travelers encounters in the
Amazon, and later this year it will release the Benicio Del
Toro-toplined The Wolf Man, an update on George Waggner’s 1941
werewolf tale.
Frankenstein has been remade numerous times — Mary Shelley’s book
sits in the public domain — but Bride has had only one other go-round
on the big screen: a 1985 version at Columbia starring Sting and
Jennifer Beals. In 1999, Bill Condon’s Gods and Monsters, a biopic of
Whale, showed clips from the film and re-created the bride herself."
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