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As the 20th Century Fox 3D Fantastic Voyage continues to take forever to get underway (script is there, but it’s pricey and they’ve had trouble casting it), I’m hearing persuasively that director Shawn Levy will likely take another Fox film, Frankenstein, as his next effort. John Davis is producing it. Fox wants to move quickly on the Max Landis-scripted thriller based on the classic monster from Mary Shelley’s public domain novel, and I’m told the studio wants Levy. They are beginning creative conversations with an eye toward this filling his winter/spring slot. The studio is eager to get out in front of the seven other Frankenstein films that are percolating all over town. Levy’s latest film, the Hugh Jackman-starrer Real Steel, will be released Oct. 7 by Touchstone. He’s eyeing a handful of possible next projects, but I’m putting my money on it being Frankenstein. Meanwhile, Levy is producing Neighborhood Watch, the Akiva Schaffer-directed Fox comedy that stars Vince Vaughn and Ben Stiller, and which just got Jonah Hill aboard.
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Whatever happened to Guillermo del Toro’s version? I know his directing slate is booked for 1000 years, but maybe he’d consider just producing it.
Shawn Levy choosing a John Davis project over a Jim Cameron produced film is why Shawn Levy is Shawn Levy.
Shawn Levy not fighting for Fantastic Voyage, cutting his fee and doing everything he can to get the budget down and make the film is why he will always be light and silly Shawn Levy and never raise his game.
Sad but true.
Here ended the lesson.
“Thus endeth the lesson” is what you were looking for.
Producer, yeah?
There’s really no good reason the Frankenstein tale has to be told again. They can put a contemporary spin on it (medical research, etc.), but in the end it is still Mary Shelley’s well-known story. Recent remakes (Branagh for instance) became forgettable fairly quickly.
If Hollywood wants to remake films, there are some cheesey big-budget films from the 1960s and 1970s that haven’t been touched yet. “Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea” (not unlike “20,000 Leagues”) was pretty bad in its time, but it did spawn a slightly-better TV series. ABC’s “Time Tunnel” could also stand a big-screen treatment.
One other suggestion – if you INSIST on remaking old films and TV shows instead of being creative, then please DON’T turn old dramas into new comedies. Jack Black, Seth Rogen, and Will Ferrell are fine in their elements, but they have no place in many of these remakes. Did you REALLY wonder why “Gulliver’s Travels”, “Green Hornet” and “Journey to the Center of the Earth” performed poorly?
I think you’re looking for “Land of the Lost.” Journey to the enter of the Earth was a Brendan Fraser flick that did make a bit of money.
just about every studio has a Frankenstein project in active development but Fox is pretty adept at getting shit made quockly. Weird because if you look at the numbers “Frankenstein” simply isn’t that lucritive a property/idea. Frankenstein movies frequently bomb. I bet the Mighty Ducks films have more profits in the last thirty years.
Just not the right guy for any Frankenstein movie…i cant see him making one better then Mel Brooks-and he is to into comendy to make a horror movie and scare the bejesus out of you. Move on…next. Razoredge
The only Frankenstein movie that should actually happen is the Guillermo del Toro version that Universal has in the works.
“Journey to the Center of the Earth”
Worldwide
Latest gross: $230,702,060
Good point, and and it didn’t cost much either. Why would the studio have made a sequel if it lost money? Green Hornet cost a bit more but it was hardly “performed poorly”, just so-so. Gulliver’s Travels cost a fortune and definitely lost money, but two out of three is a pretty good result. They might as well make a new comedy version, because Frankenstein has been done to death. Besides, the last major serious production with Robert De Niro tanked (and it was a shit movie to boot). Didn’t Beastly cover some of the same ground? It didn’t do too well.
Gulliver’s Travels did $237,000,000 worldwide. Probably didn’t make any money but will make a fortune on DVD/Blu Ray and Rentals (Like every Kid’s movie).
A quote from Monster in the real “Frankenstein” story: Did I beseech thee, master, when I was clay to mold me man? Did I solicit thee from darkness to promote me?” That’s a far cry from ‘Aaarggh!”.