THE INVISIBLE MAN Producer Jason Blum Is Open To Bringing FRANKENSTEIN Back To The Big Screen Next

THE INVISIBLE MAN Producer Jason Blum Is Open To Bringing FRANKENSTEIN Back To The Big Screen Next

The Invisible Man has been Blumhouse's most successful horror remake in quite some time (critically, at least), and Jason Blum has now revealed that he's open to revisiting other classic movie monsters...

By JoshWilding - Mar 05, 2020 11:03 AM EST
Filed Under: Frankenstein
Source: The Evolution Of Horror
The Invisible Man has been a huge critical success for Blumhouse (you can read our review by clicking here), but it now sounds like the prolific producer is setting his sights on a new take on Frankenstein. That's a franchise which has been rebooted countless times over the years, but a modern update similar to The Invisible Man might be exactly what it needs. 

"I'd love to do Frankenstein. I've tasked our filmmakers with trying to figure out just straight Frankenstein," Blum confirmed during a recently interview with The Evolution of Horror. "Again, I don't know if someone else is doing it, I don't know anything about it, but I would love to try, and I'm waiting for the great idea."
 
"The Invisible Man, I agree, the best ideas feel like, 'My gosh, it's so obvious -- why didn't that happen before?'" he continued. "If we could come up with something as good for Frankenstein, I'd love to try that."
 
Now that Universal Pictures is no longer moving forward with a shared "Dark Universe," there's definitely more freedom for standalone stories that deliver fresh new takes on iconic movie monsters. It's previously been reported that the studio wants a Bride of Frankenstein film. 

Time will tell what comes next for this Monster-verse, but after flops like Dracula Untold and The Mummy, it's definitely a relief to see things back on the right track after The Invisible Man

Would you guys be interested in Blumhouse's take on Frankenstein?
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FleischerSupes
FleischerSupes - 3/5/2020, 12:04 PM
The novel is still pretty disturbing and holds up. Dealing with regrets and the consequences of huge mistakes. Also Bernie Wrightson did some awesome Frankenstein art.

GhostDog
GhostDog - 3/5/2020, 12:07 PM


JustALurker
JustALurker - 3/5/2020, 2:24 PM
@BlackBeltJones - Making him a cyborg misses the whole point. The scond one is just a zombie fixed with staples.
contrast
contrast - 3/5/2020, 2:41 PM
@JustALurker - i would argue that it doesn't matter whether Frankenstein's Monster is a cyborg or a patchwork corpse or anything else. That's totally beside the point of the novel. Hell, in the original novel there's only an extremely vague passage about getting materials from charnel houses that suggests the monster was made from dead people. The point of the story is one of rejection and nature versus nurture. Frankenstein's monster is a monster because Victor made him one. He brought a life into this world and abandoned it immediately, leaving it to learn how to exist on its own in a world that feared it. I think as long as the monster is created by someone and has something that makes them stand out as obviously different from the rest of humanity, that's all that's important.
JustALurker
JustALurker - 3/6/2020, 2:27 AM
@contrast - even tho you'll entirely miss the mark visually, at that point why make Frankenstein's monster? Make an original flick.
contrast
contrast - 3/6/2020, 10:42 AM
@JustALurker - if you're referring to the iconic Universal look originated by Jack Pierce, with the squared-off head and electrodes in the neck, in my opinion, that makes more sense for a character that's part man, part machine. But again the look does not the character make. If that were the case, Herman Munster would be the most accurate depiction of Frankenstein's Monster after the James Whale films.
SpideyQuad
SpideyQuad - 3/11/2021, 8:44 AM
@JustALurker - The second one reminds me of Michael Jackson for some reason…
tmp3
tmp3 - 3/5/2020, 12:17 PM
Invisible Man's [frick]ing awesome. The suit looked like something out of MGS, haha
Whaley87
Whaley87 - 3/6/2020, 2:18 AM
@tmp3 - Was a great film. Everyone in the cinema made a type of "holy shit!" reaction during the restaurant scene. So good.
manofillintent1
manofillintent1 - 3/5/2020, 12:18 PM
Pretty sure invisible man will end up on my best of year list
OmegaDaGrodd
OmegaDaGrodd - 3/5/2020, 12:19 PM
Dapper Frakenstein

Jimster
Jimster - 3/5/2020, 11:15 PM
@OmegaDaGrodd - GRRRR! Mr. X!! I hate that guy. Always showed up at the worst time! Love the game though. Still need to beat it...
SonOfAGif
SonOfAGif - 3/5/2020, 12:30 PM
Why not make it a period piece? Set in let's say the early 1960s in a rural area where Dr. Frankenstein is notorious for his experiments on wildstock and many farmers have cows, horses, chickens, and sheep missing and eventually discover that Dr. Frankenstein has been harvesting animal organs to create his "monster". And the monster comes to life wrecking havoc and all the farmers band together to combat the monster and burn down Dr. Frankenstein's home.
KWilly
KWilly - 3/5/2020, 12:49 PM
Bryan Cranston as Victor Frankenstein



Robert Maillet (6 ft 11) as The Monster

MosquitoFarmer
MosquitoFarmer - 3/5/2020, 1:01 PM
Who should play Frankenstein's monster?

YonnyLayna
YonnyLayna - 3/5/2020, 1:02 PM
I think would be more doable.making a Cinematic Universe around The Leage Of.Extraordinary Gentelmen than this Dark Universe thing.
Nightmare
Nightmare - 3/5/2020, 1:12 PM
Only version I want is Del Toro's who drew heavily from Bernie Wrightson's.

noahthegrand
noahthegrand - 3/5/2020, 1:18 PM
Mads Mikkelson for a Dracula movie
noahthegrand
noahthegrand - 3/5/2020, 2:33 PM
If anyone has seen the movie Depraved it’s a pretty good remake of Frankenstein set in the modern day.
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