MTV News caught up with the actor Aaron Eckhart, who is promoting his new movie
The Rum Diary. He opened up about the next film on his dance card,
I, Frankenstein. According to him, the movie will be more modern and his monster won't be stiff, lumbering around like the Frankenstein Monsters that most people are used to seeing.
"Well, I'm going to be Frankenstein, which I never thought that sentence existed. I'm going to shoot that next year in Australia. I have no idea what I'm going to do," he admitted. "I'm reading Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein' right now, I'm quite impressed by his intellect and depth of feeling, so it will be interesting to explore."
"It's more of an action take on Frankenstein, it's not a comic book, but there's a lot of fighting in it so we'll see. I'm looking forward to it, I get to learn some new stuff."
I, Frankenstein is a modern take on the Mary Shelley tale, and it will star Aaron Eckhart as Adam Frankenstein. Adam survives to present day due to a genetic quirk in his creation. He makes his way to a Gothic and dark metropolis. He soon finds himself caught in an all-out centuries old war, between two immortal clans.