EXCLUSIVE: While the outbreak of zombie and vampire films has been well chronicled, Hollywood has also become flush with Frankenstein films. The latest is an adaptation of the Peter Ackroyd novel
The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein, which has just gotten Pulitzer-winning
Proof playwright David Auburn signed to write the script.� The project is set with RT Features, and Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert?s Ghost House Pictures.
The story covers the youthful days of Frankenstein, who begins experimenting with corpses, influenced by the outspoken English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, whose Mary wrote the book. She's a character in the film as well. RT Features? Rodrigo Teixeira will produce with Tapert and Ilene Staple, while Fernando Loureiro, Jeff Vespa and Ghost House?s Nathan Kahane and Lawrence Grey will be exec producers. That's just one of several Frankenflicks. Universal is developing a new version of the 1931 studio classic movie with Guillermo del Toro and Scott Stuber; Summit Entertainment is
developing This Dark Endeavor: The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein, an adaptation of the Kenneth Oppel novel that is being produced by
Twilight Saga?s Karen Rosenfelt; and Columbia Pictures and producer Matt Tomach recently
acquired Frankenstein, a contemporary re-telling of the famous tale based on a pitch by Craig Fernandez. If that?s not enough, former Guns n Roses guitar hero Slash, whose Slasher Films is
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