Bradley McManus ('Bodyguard of Lies') is on board to write the series. One Big Picture was co-founded by Otto Bathurst, multi-BAFTA award winning director of 'Peaky Blinders', 'His Dark Materials', 'Black Mirror' and 'Robin Hood', who is now confirmed to direct. The three parties are co-producing the premium television series. You can hardly blame him.UK-based production company One Big Picture has joined BlackBox Multimedia and Stone Village TV in the TV’s series adaptation of Mary Shelley’s 'Frankenstein' (“The Modern Prometheus”). Director Marcus Nispel's work feels adrift and aimless outside of his preferred genre (remakes), and Dean Koontz wisely took his name off the thing. But there's really nothing to keep you watching: no interesting set-pieces, no special effects to speak of, no drama, no tension, not one bit of suspense. Instead, the thrust of the plot eventually turns out to involve Michael Madsen, playing a fellow detective with a few secrets of his own. Yeah, the film really is that muddled and disjointed: the detectives never catch up with Frankenstein, and we never even learn how he's still alive in the modern day. He's Frankenstein, but despite taking up a great deal of screen time he never actually gets involved in the main storyline. There's also some pointless stuff involving ruthless scientist Victor Helios, played by Thomas Kretschmann. Along the way, they come across Vincent Perez as a strangely scarred and hooded figure, and there are no prizes for guessing who he's supposed to be. The tired story sees a couple of lame detectives (Parker Posey and Adam Goldberg, possibly the most uninteresting cops I've seen in any movie) going after a killer leaving a string of bizarre deaths in his wake. The reason? This was the ill-conceived pilot of a television series that was never made, so don't go in expecting any kind of plot resolution or tying up of loose ends. Everything about this production screams cliché: there's a murky, depressing visual style that constantly uses David Fincher's SE7EN as its source material (isn't that so late '90s?) and a storyline that ends up going absolutely nowhere. Let me get this straight to begin with: FRANKENSTEIN is a horrible reinterpretation of the classic Mary Shelley novel, which attempts to modernise the story in a pre-flooding New Orleans.

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