Victor Frankenstein is an upcoming American horror film based on contemporary adaptations of Mary Shelley‘s 1818 novel Frankenstein directed by Paul McGuigan and written by Max Landis. The film stars Daniel Radcliffe (The Woman in Black; Horns) as the hunchback Igor and James McAvoy (Trance; X-Men: Days of Future Past) as the scientist Victor Frankenstein.
After some delays, the film is now scheduled to be released by 20th Century Fox on October 2, 2015.
Plot teaser:
Told from Igor’s perspective, we see the troubled young assistant’s dark origins, his redemptive friendship with the young medical student Viktor Von Frankenstein, and become eyewitnesses to the emergence of how Frankenstein became the man who created the legend we know today…
Cast:
- James McAvoy as Victor Frankenstein
- Daniel Radcliffe as Igor
- Jessica Brown Findlay as Lorelei
- Andrew Scott as Roderick Turpin
- Mark Gatiss as Dettweiler
- Callum Turner as Alistair
Filming locations:
Filming mostly took place in England, with stage filming at Longcross and Twickenham Film Studios and location shooting at Chatham Historic Dockyard.
