Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment, who appear to be the popular studio of this week with their entourage of films, electrocutes some life into the remake of The Bride of Frankenstein. The polished version is being written and directed by visually intriguing director Neil Burger, the same man who penned and helmed the Edward Norton starring film The Illusionist. Peeled off from The Hollywood Reporter is the rest of the information:
“Bride” has had a series of stops and starts. About five years ago, “American Splendor” scribes Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini were attached to write the screenplay for the Uni/Imagine update. Their concept was to set the picture in contemporary New York, with a young woman dying and then unnaturally brought back to life (Burger’s version is expected to differ significantly from that concept). Jacob Estes, a writer on Spider-Man spinoff “Venom,” also at one point had been attached to write a draft.
Brian Grazer and Sean Daniel will produce the pic; Karen Kehela, David Bernardi and Chris Wade will oversee for Imagine.
