Guillermo del Toro could shoot Darabont's FRANKENSTEIN?
Director calls Darabont's Frankenstein script 'almost perfect' and that he would be interested in directing a movie about the classic monster.
One of the many forgotten Hollywood projects that could have turned out spectacular was Frank Darabont's version of Frankenstein. However, the studio assigned Shakespearean lover Kenneth Branagh who despite his energetic and charismatic performance on screen, his work behind the camera made the 1994 adaptation the most over-the-top and dramatic version of the classic tale cinema has ever seen.
...my worst experience. Actually, the script was great, the movie was a mess. You cant really judge the script based on what you saw on the screen. It got rephrased and messed with every inch of the way.Fast forward 13 years, and a popular Spanish director has created his own monster movie series with Hellboy and plans to even add the classic Universal monsters such as Frankenstein into a possible third film. And according to Joblo, there could be the chance of stand-alone Frankenstein from del Toro in the future...
The project he "would kill to make" is a faithful "Miltonian tragedy" version of FRANKENSTEIN that doesn't suck wild ass like Branagh's. He mentioned reading Frank Darabont's draft and saying it was pretty much perfect.Could there be a movement for del Toro to shoot and tweak Darabont's draft? Type Frankenstein into IMDB and you get over 100 search returns, so it's hardly a tale that we haven't seen before. I think del Toro would make a great and wacky version if the opportunity ever arose but personally, I would rather see him stick to original projects or developing other books that haven't already been translated to the big screen. Stuff like his next film At the Mountains of Madness and projects like 1906. The definitive version of Frankenstein has always been the two movies that James Whale put together in the 1930's with the great Boris Karloff. It's his great performance that is the Frankenstein of popular culture and not so much the words of Mary Shelley and her great novel.