It’s alive?! No, not yet. It’s just a script deal. But it’s interesting that House executive producers Russel Friend and Garrett Lerner are developing the classic horror tale Frankenstein for NBC.
No other details are available at this point other than this will be a modern-day take on the story. But Frankenstein is one of those concepts where the closer you stick to the original tale, the tougher it becomes to imagine as a TV show — you’d have to radically change things to have a concept that could run five seasons. (Hmm: After a strong, silent-type cop is gunned down, a brainy scientist reanimates him from the dead and together they solve crimes in modern-day New York City — there).
Yuck, don’t even suggest a “cop” version of Frankenstein.
Your idea has been done…..it was called Robocop.
“After a strong, silent-type cop is gunned down, a brainy scientist reanimates him from the dead and together they solve crimes in modern-day New York City”
Person of Interest anyone?
Go with Dean Koontz’s Frankenstein. It could actually work.
Dean Koontz’s Frankenstein is a great idea!!! I think it would make a better movie though (with Hugh Jackman…idk why but I always though that if they did anything with the series for a movie he would be perfect as Michael with Angelina Jolie as Carson. For Victor I always pictured Russel Crowe and for Deucalion I always pictured Robert Deniero since he was great in the 90s film version of the frankenstein novel)
Yes! Do this please! Those books are fantastic and would make a great tv show. In fact, wasn’t it originally supposed to be a tv show with Parker Posey?
Yes, the first book was turned into a TV movie which was supposed to continue with the other books but from what I understand Koontz wasn’t happy with the TV part (big surprise given how Hollywood constantly mauls his work) so he pulled out & just continued with the books by himself!
I thought of the books as soon as I saw “modern-day take”!
I thought it was the TV execs that weren’t exactly happy with the product idea, and decided to nix the show, not Koontz. While he has become a religious nut and hack in his later career, his books from the 70′s and 80′s remain imaginative and good. And yes, Hollywood always screws up his stuff. How many times did they film Watchers and still not get the story right? Only Phantoms came close.
Yeah I can’t remember the specifics! I know the TV movie & book were quite different! Yeah I’m still ticked about that travesty of a movie! There’s been a couple of TV mini-series that weren’t bad (Intensity for one) but by & large they’ve been very unsatisfactory!
I disagree though, I find his work over the last 15 years far exceeds what he did in his King-esque earlier years…and he can still terrify (What the Night Knows was straight up horror)! I love how he can blend spirituality into his thrillers. Plus it’s not like he does it in every book. I recently read Relentless in one sitting…I just couldn’t put it down even though it had none of the religious aspect of From the Corner of His Eye.
I couldn’t agree more! Koontz’s Frankenstein modernized the story, but kept the same character depth that I appreciated in Mary Shelley’s version. This was my first thought – convert Koontz’s books to scripts and get Frank Miller to do it!
I like ur idea but idk if cops is the direction it should go. If It were me it be like the original in a sense where a scietist or monster hunter creates the monster than maybe throw in a supernatural like twist where he and the monster track down monsters/gohtst/witches/etc and destroy them.
Another good option would be the scientist bringing his son/daughter/wife/whatever back to life and someone catching on like the cops/FBI/some kind of gov agency and he and whatever family the show wants to add (brother/sister/mom/uncle/neice/kid/nephew) trying to evade them or trying to keep the regenerated person a secret (I like this idea better since it would be an ensemble cast kinda thing)
They should totally do a cop version. It can take place at the border and Franken-cop can chase illegals back into mexico. Or it can take place in LA, where the Frank directs low budget porn.
Or he could run for president and fix the economy.
OR he can go back in time to the previous administration and nip the bad economy and two wars in the bud.
They need to read The Wachowksi’s Doc Frankenstein.
When I saw the headline, I immediately thought it would be Dean Koontz’s Frankenstein. I’m bummed it’s not because that would be a show I would like to check out.
Let house create it. He gets mad from getting fired from the hospital & all his friends leave him. This is his revenge! As he goes along he has trouble because his creation comes down with a new ailment each week. Then he has to diagnose & cure it each week. Should last about 8 seasons.
It’ll probably be an extremely watered down and family friendly version of the tale. Why not put it on a basic cable channel like FX where it has more freedom (or even a premium channel like HBO)?
“Frankenstein” was done on stage in London earlier this year to sold-out audiences and standing ovations every night. Jonnny Lee Miller and Benedict Cumberbatch traded roles each evening. They didn’t do the “movie” look of the creature but as someone kind of sewn together. It was shown in certain theaters and any t.v. show would be awfully weak compared to that.
Julie is a nerd.
Snot soup is delicious.
The only way this could work and it’s a long shot is that Frankenstein’s monster is found by a secret gov. agency (think Hellboy’s BPRD) and is trained to hunt down other monsters. He’s either forced to by this agency or does so willingly as penance for the bad things he’s done in the past.
I cannot get this idea around my head. By the time the television executives at NBC get done with this, it will probably be watered-down, un-watchable crap. The only redeeming feature is that it probably won’t last very long.