It’s being reported that 1019 Entertainment’s Ralph Winter and Terry Botwick are developing a modernized re-telling of the tale of Frankenstein based on the series of books by acclaimed author Dean Koontz.
The hope is that a new franchise can be born. It will be set in modern New Orleans, where a successful businessman has secretly created a super-human monster named Deucalion. A couple of detectives meet come face-to-face with the monster while investigating a murder one day, and when they investigate a little further, they are lead to a world of manufactured human beings.
Koontz’s first novel in the series is called Frankenstein: Prodigal Son, and was followed by two more books. It has also recently been adapted into a graphic novel format.
Here is a synopsis for his books.
Every city has secrets. But none as terrible as this. His name is Deucalion, a tattooed man of mysterious origin, a sleight-of-reality artist who’s traveled the centuries with a secret worse than death. He arrives as a serial killer stalks the streets, a killer who carefully selects his victims for the humanity that is missing in himself. Detective Carson O’Connor is cool, cynical, and every bit as tough as she looks. Her partner Michael Maddison would back her up all the way to Hell itself–and that just may be where this case ends up. For the no-nonsense O’Connor is suddenly talking about an ages-old conspiracy, a near immortal race of beings, and killers that are more””and less””than human. Soon it will be clear that as crazy as she sounds, the truth is even more ominous. For their quarry isn’t merely a homicidal maniac””but his deranged maker.
Winter was strongly involved with 20th Century Fox before forming 1019 Entertainment with Botwick. He helped producer all three X-Men films, including X-Men Origins: Wolverine; they also produced both Fantastic Four movies, and the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth installments of the older Star Trek movies.
[Source: Variety]
I thought a straight to tv mini series was made for D.K.’s books? IDK i could be wrong.
Comment by GiantRobotMunki — February 17, 2010 @ 4:47 pm
There was a mini series/movie that was aired about 6 months ago on Sleuth channel but it was not a good representation of the book. I believe it started as a mini series but was canned before it aired a few years ago (with good reason).
I am not sure if the Sleuth channel is still airing this movie version but don’t waste your time.
Hope this helps.
Comment by Butter624 — February 27, 2010 @ 12:16 am
It would be great if they do make a movie of the books. I love the series so far.
As for the mini series from what I read and understand the series started before the books in that Dean Koontz was working with the producers in the concept stage but they disagreed on where they wanted the series to go. So Dean stepped a way from the project and instead decided to write his books to get “his” vision out. So the series really have little to do with Dean’s vision. But that is just what I have read in the past so you might want to do a little research for the 100% truth.
Comment by wendy — June 22, 2010 @ 10:24 pm