X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST's James McAvoy Cast As Fox's Victor Von FRANKENSTEIN

X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST's James McAvoy Cast As Fox's Victor Von FRANKENSTEIN

James McAvoy, who will soon be seen again as a younger Charles Xavier in next summer's X-Men: Days Of Future Past, has landed the role of Victor Von Frankenstein in 20th Century Fox's Frankenstein adaptation, which also stars Daniel Radcliffe as Igor.

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By PaulRom - Jul 25, 2013 11:07 AM EST
Filed Under: Horror
Source: Deadline



According to Deadline, 20th Century Fox has finally found an actor to play Victor Von Frankenstein in its big screen adaptation of Mary Shelly's Frankenstein. James McAvoy, who starred in the studio's X-Men: First Class and the upcoming Days Of Future Past as a young Charles Xavier, will play the creator of the infamous monster alongside Daniel Radcliffe's Igor. Jack Huston and Toby Kebell are among the actors who previously tested for the role. Paul McGuigan (Sherlock) is attached to direct the adaptation, which may begin production later this year. Frankenstein is set to hit theaters October 17th, 2014.

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whoa123
whoa123 - 7/25/2013, 11:47 AM
I'm really interested to see Radcliffe as Igor.
kisama
kisama - 7/25/2013, 11:48 AM
^it's pronounced eye-gawr...sorry couldn't resist
kisama
kisama - 7/25/2013, 11:49 AM
and speaking of James, has anyone seen Trance?
complete mind[frick]
airbeyonder18
airbeyonder18 - 7/25/2013, 11:52 AM
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
TheAmazingSpiderMan310
TheAmazingSpiderMan310 - 7/25/2013, 11:56 AM
how many goddamn Frankenstein movies do we need?
PrinceOfCrime
PrinceOfCrime - 7/25/2013, 11:58 AM
so next year we have 2 Hercules movies and 2 Frankenstein movies. Why?? It's not like we need 2 of them
jlabatman
jlabatman - 7/25/2013, 11:59 AM
So Professor X is making Harry Potter his bitch? Sounds good to me!
kisama
kisama - 7/25/2013, 12:01 PM
@ZodMaster: hollywood's pockets don't want you to think that though.
TheIlluminati
TheIlluminati - 7/25/2013, 12:05 PM
@ZodMaster it's real simple.......$$$$$$$$$$ makes the world go 'round
gambgel
gambgel - 7/25/2013, 12:09 PM
Cool!

this could end having a pretty fine Casting, now its time for a female lead!
RJ4651
RJ4651 - 7/25/2013, 12:12 PM
I wonder how many times Hollywood can milk this dead cow of a story. Yea it's a classic, I understand that, but damn. Give us some kind of new twist or spin to it. May or may not be good, but we the fans deserve something better than just a retelling of this dinasaur aged story.
WeaponX93
WeaponX93 - 7/25/2013, 12:13 PM
I'm still waiting for a faithful adaptation of Mary Shelley's original story. Any other literature geeks with me? That being said, if McAvoy's and Eckhart's look good, I'll probably see them.
Greengo
Greengo - 7/25/2013, 12:22 PM
Well we've seen how how White House Down did on the heels of Olympus Has Fallen.

No wonder Hollywood is in crisis.
Greengo
Greengo - 7/25/2013, 12:26 PM
They need to continue with the Biblical epic trend.

The Bible was massively successful and has/will spawn multiple series, books, etc, etc.

Aronofsky's interpretation of the story of Noah will probably do very well.

Hollyweird is so squeamish, it's like all the studio's don't want any risk and would rather use and reuse stories and plots over and over again, occasionally even months apart, than to take a financial risk on something different.
Greengo
Greengo - 7/25/2013, 12:30 PM
Biblical epics where hugely successful in the past. But anti-Christian Hollywood doesn't want to lend any of what the perceive to be credence to Christianity.

Fortunately Hollywood is money motivated and those types of films and projects pay dividends.

Hollywood saw how successful The Passion was.

I guess they were waiting until someone other than Mel Gibson proves it.
kisama
kisama - 7/25/2013, 12:35 PM
@Greengo: The majority of the U.S. is christian. Why would hollywood be afraid of making biblical movies? I'm not personally christian but I enjoy biblical movies. From Hell used to be one of my favorites.
kisama
kisama - 7/25/2013, 12:38 PM
Not From Hell, Ninth Gate. Though From Hell is still pretty good.
TheSuperguy
TheSuperguy - 7/25/2013, 12:40 PM
I just hope this respects the original film and is a throwback to that.
BlackPhillip
BlackPhillip - 7/25/2013, 12:44 PM
Another Frankenstein movie?
Starlight
Starlight - 7/25/2013, 12:45 PM
And so the NEW ERA OF FRANKENSTEIN movies begin....
BlackPhillip
BlackPhillip - 7/25/2013, 12:49 PM
@Greengo

Yea, more Biblical epics would be nice. Hopefully, Noah is really good with that awesome cast.
Shaggy
Shaggy - 7/25/2013, 2:48 PM
nice casting
now get Michael Shannon to play the monster and we'll be all set
TheAmarilloBlack
TheAmarilloBlack - 7/25/2013, 3:20 PM
Ya'll are funny as hell saying that most of this country is "Christian". (see what I did there?)

Greengo is exactly right, Hollywood is almost entirely Anti-Christian, nigh Satanic.

Ya'll saw how quick they canned Paradise Lost. It does not get more Biblically epic than that (though not at all canonical).

We'll get a deluge after Noah, though. Pun intended.
TheAmarilloBlack
TheAmarilloBlack - 7/25/2013, 3:38 PM
The same problems were posed with Avatar, it still got made. But I wasn't even trying to correlate that with the FACT that Hollywood is Satanic. That would be stupid, it's a movie ABOUT Satan. Dumb shit.

TheAmarilloBlack
TheAmarilloBlack - 7/25/2013, 3:41 PM
He asked to make Spider-Man too, didn't get made.

If you were smarter you would qualify to be an idiot.
TheAmarilloBlack
TheAmarilloBlack - 7/25/2013, 3:45 PM
You can't "responded" to it because you aren't intelligent enough to recognize an insult of that magnitude.

You need some adult "observation" yourself, sport.
TheAmarilloBlack
TheAmarilloBlack - 7/25/2013, 3:45 PM
Supervision, even. lol
Canary
Canary - 7/25/2013, 7:45 PM

Trance sucked...
CyberA
CyberA - 7/26/2013, 2:37 PM

Hmm, interesting news, to be sure... *maybe*/P :)
AUSSYACE
AUSSYACE - 7/27/2013, 8:43 AM
Make sure the Monster looks like the Original film...
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