Filmmaker Danny Boyle has been working on a stage version of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, and it sounds gimmicky but cool: it will feature relatively big-name stars (Johnny Lee Miller and Atonement's Benedict Cumberbatch), music by the techno duo Underworld, and halfway through the play's run (on March 24th) the two main actors will switch roles.



Plus, for those of us who can't afford to fly out to wherever this sucker is playing, the play will be broadcast live in HD via satellite on 375 screens world-wide on March 17, including on 85 screens in the United States. (Click here to see if it's playing in a theater near you.)

Labels: Mary Shelley, Theater

Hmm. I see they're making a movie of Dean Koontz's Frankenstein: Prodigal Son, which is a loose (very loose) continuation of Mary Shelley's novel.

A movie of a novel adaptation (with, naturally, its own comic book adaptation, which we did find amusing, although probably not in the way the author intended) of an even earlier novel seems like we're wandering awfully far from our source material, but I figure as long as it isn't written by Dr. Titley, we'll be fine.

Labels: Classic books, Dean Koontz, Mary Shelley