Mr. Reeves and Jekyll Time

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Everyone’s favorite surfer talking Hollywood star Keanu Reeves is ready to transform himself into a completely different being all together. Universal Pictures is ready to completely retell, in a modern sense, the famed story of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Exact plot details are kept under wraps, other than the obvious premise of a doctor who scientifically forms another part of himself, but Justin Haythe (Revolutionary Road) is penning up the script.

Of course this is not the first time they’ve made a film out of this popular Robert Louis Stevenson’s story, jumping from many adaptations since the early 1900s relating closely to the story even to comedic based forms such as Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde. Nicholas Winding Refn is in talks to helm the flick with Erwin Stoff (The Day The Earth Stood Still 2008), Douglas Wick (RV) and Lucy Fisher (Memoirs of a Geisha). No date yet for the film, but when that and other news comes along, keep your eyes here on Atomic Popcorn for it all.