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Not much is non about this project except that it was proposed to David Cronenberg after me made the Fly in 1986, by producer Pierre David who also produced David Cronenberg's film "The Brood". It's so surprising this didn't happen as this is such an ideal match, while Merry Shelle's book isn't very body horror, the idea of creating a monster out of other people’s body parts is the basis of body horror. We know that Cronenberg wanted to stay closer to Shelley's version of the monster by making him a lot smarter and more sympathetic like in the Bride of Frankenstein so clearly, he wanted to do a more book accurate film version of the tale. I'm pretty shore it would be set in the early 18 hundreds like the book was and it would be interesting to see what Cronenberg would do with a period piece as he has never done a period piece other than Naked Lunch which was set in 1953. I imagine his version would be like a mix of the 1993 TV movie Frankenstein and Junji Ito's manga version of Frankenstein with some influences from the Curse of Frankenstein (1957). For this thumbnail, I decided to use Jeff Goldblum as Victor Frankenstein and Jeremy Irons as the Creature.

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Not much is non about this project except that it was proposed to David Cronenberg after me made the Fly in 1986, by producer Pierre David who also produced David Cronenberg's film "The Brood". It's so surprising this didn't happen as this is such an ideal match, while Merry Shelle's book isn't very body horror, the idea of creating a monster out of other people’s body parts is the basis of body horror. We know that Cronenberg wanted to stay closer to Shelley's version of the monster by making him a lot smarter and more sympathetic like in the Bride of Frankenstein so clearly, he wanted to do a more book accurate film version of the tale. I'm pretty shore it would be set in the early 18 hundreds like the book was and it would be interesting to see what Cronenberg would do with a period piece as he has never done a period piece other than Naked Lunch which was set in 1953. I imagine his version would be like a mix of the 1993 TV movie Frankenstein and Junji Ito's manga version of Frankenstein with some influences from the Curse of Frankenstein (1957). For this thumbnail, I decided to use Jeff Goldblum as Victor Frankenstein and Jeremy Irons as the Creature.