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James McAvoy has been approved for the role of Dr. Victor Frankenstein in a new film adaptation of Mary Shelley's horror classic "Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus".
Earlier in the cast of the film directed by Paul McGuigan, which will be released in 2014, has already entered Daniel Radcliffe. He reincarnated on the screen Igor, assistant doctors involved in the creation of the famous monster.
Story of Frankenstein concerned not only Paul McGuigan - known Guillermo del Toro also intends to make a film version of the famous novel. One of the actors will be Benedict Cumberbatch. However, who exactly will play actor - Dr. Victor Frankenstein's monster or created by them - yet to be announced.
By the way, talking about the project are not the first year (2009th director even filmed some of the material), but before as a leading man named Doug Jones, who played in "Pan's Labyrinth" and "Hellboy." And now, according to Del Toro, he "hopes" to take off his version of the film adaptation of the novel by Mary Shelley, utilizing it one of the most popular British actors of our time. By the way, Cumberbatch has played a similar role - though on the stage, not in the movie. The Englishman became the star of the play Danny Boyle, set in London.
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| Stills from the film adaptation of "Frankenstein" in 1931 on the novel by Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus" |
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