If you’re writing a book at this moment, here’s my suggestion! Whatever you’re writing about, make sure to put “vampire” or “zombies” or something like that in a title, and there you go, your novel will soon get an adaptation.
I have no idea if Peter Ackroyd shares my opinion, but he definitely has a reason to celebrate, because his novel titled The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein will be adapted into a feature film.
And, believe it or not, Pulitzer-prize winning playwright David Auburn (Proof) will be in charge for the adaptation!
So, Auburn is on board to write the script, but thanks to Deadline, we know that 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.
Here’s a little description of the novel: “When two nineteenth-century Oxford students – Victor Frankenstein, a serious researcher, and the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, form an unlikely friendship, the result is a tour de force that could only come from one of the world’s most accomplished and prolific authors.
This haunting and atmospheric novel opens with a heated discussion, as Shelley challenges the conventionally religious Frankenstein to consider his atheistic notions of creation and life. Afterward, these concepts become an obsession for the young scientist.
As Victor begins conducting anatomical experiments to reanimate the dead, he at first uses corpses supplied by the coroner. But these specimens prove imperfect for Victor’s purposes. Moving his makeshift laboratory to a deserted pottery factory in Limehouse, he makes contact with the Doomsday men – the resurrectionists -whose grisly methods put Frankenstein in great danger as he works feverishly to bring life to the terrifying creature that will bear his name for eternity…”
Anyone interested in this adaptation? If you are, then stay tuned for more updates!
