In dream casting (if you’re a nerd), Professor Charles Xavier and Harry Potter team up for all sorts of scientific and pseudo-scientific shenanigans in Victor Frankenstein.
Even Sherlock Holmes’s nemesis Moriarty shows up. If you’re a geek, this is like a fantasy baseball team winning the World Series
The new twist on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein looks like it’s cribbing from Guy Ritchie’s steampunk Sherlock Holmes so expect the camp meter to go all the way to 11, and it seems to be a lot less earnest than the Kenneth Branagh-Robert de Niro outing from a few years back.
Official Synopsis:
Told from Igor’s perspective, we see the troubled young assistant’s dark origins, his redemptive friendship with the young medical student Viktor Von Frankenstein, and become eyewitnesses to the emergence of how Frankenstein became the man – and the legend – we know today.
James McAvoy is the scientist obsessed with creating life. Marty Feldman Daniel Radcliffe is his assistant, Igor. Andrew Scott plays a policeman investigating disappearing corpses. Is one of those bodies Downtown Abbey‘s deceased Lady Sybil (Jessica Brown Findlay)?
It looks as if everyone is having a grand old time.
Victor Frankenstein opens in the U.S. this Thanksgiving.
By coincidence, Mary Shelley will soon be getting the biopic treatment (twice).
The Fluff Is Raging 
A good cast assembled for this. But do I want to see it? Not sure.
Cheers mate, Pete.
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I concur with Pete.
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This really looks great!
I actually loved Branagh’s Frankenstein, very close to Mary Shelley’s idea. This dosn’t seem as close, but from what I see, the twist is pretty interesting 🙂
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I just remember it being very overwrought (but then again, as you say, so is the book)
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