'Enchanted' Director Takes on Femme Dr. Frankenstein
Filed under: Comedy, Horror, Romance, Deals, Distribution
Enchanted director Kevin Lima is on board to direct a new version of Mary Shelley's classic horror novel Frankenstein. Frank has a helluva twist, though; the scientist cooking up cadavers is an "antisocial" young woman in med school who decides to "create" her own friends. And... it's a romantic comedy. Can you say undead boyfriend?!According to Variety, the writer and one of the executive producers of this potentially awesome project is Karey Kirkpatrick, the writer of The Spiderwick Chronicles, Charlotte's Web, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and James and the Giant Peach, among others. He also directed the Eddie Murphy vehicle Imagine That,
Both Lima and Kirkpatrick have a bunch of projects that are in development, although Lima's have more of a family-friendly vibe (The Spook's Apprentice, Candy Land, The Incredible Mr. Limpet, and Thumb). Kirkpatrick's optioned projects include writing, directing, and producing Captain Abdul's Pirate School, about a girl who is sent to pirate school and plans a mutiny against their evil school principal slash lead pirate, as well as the more adult-minded The Best a Man Can Get, which he is also writing, producing and directing.
Based on distributor Fox 2000's track record, Frank could be focused more on the rom-com than the potential for blood and a cool chick lead, but maybe indie production company Radar Pictures (the peeps behind Richard Kelley's The Box, and remakes of The Amityville Horror and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, among a number of other projects) will make sure that we get a dash of gore with our giggles and girly goodness.
I'm voting for Kat Dennings as our protagonist -- she's smart, snarky, and sweet, and she plays the perfect "outsider." Who would you cast?
(Thanks to Zach for noting that Kirkpatrick is a man. Oops.)
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6-23-2009 @ 9:56PM
paul said...
He must have an enormous schwanzstucker, voof!
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6-23-2009 @ 10:09PM
YouFaceTheTick said...
No to Kat Dennings. She's one-note. Sadly Amanda Seyfried is too pretty and doe-eyed to be considered a misfit. Amanda Bynes pulls off dork fairly well but unlike Dennings droning voice, Bynes is too upbeat. Still if this is anything like Enchanted upbeat will work.
They may go a shade older - mid 20s grad student works and thus it's wide open to proven commodities like Anne Hathaway. Kristen Bell's getting too old to be believable as a college student but she's got years of experience playing a believable misfit on Veronica Mars.
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6-24-2009 @ 8:58AM
ML said...
Looking at the credits, I'm guessing this working won't have nearly enough bite or thought ... or even wit. Good luck to them.
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6-26-2009 @ 1:19PM
Zach said...
"She also directed the Eddie Murphy vehicle Imagine That..."
Karey Kirkpatrick is a man, not a woman.
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7-02-2009 @ 1:52PM
MichelleK said...
This sounds like a role for Evan Rachel Wood, or Emma Stone
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