Bride of Frankenstein Will Stand Alone, Is Inspired by Success of The Invisible Man – MovieWeb

The Dark Universe created by Universal Pictures was the studio's failed attempt at setting up an expensively-mounted interconnected horror franchise populated by iconic monsters from Dracula to The Mummy. But that failure led to the creation of the recent critically acclaimed low-budget hit The Invisible Man. David Koepp, who is creating a script for Bride of Frankenstein, spoke about how its treatment was affected by the success of The Invisible Man.

The Invisible Man tells the tale of a woman, played by Elizabeth Moss, who is terrorized by her ex-lover after he discovers the secret to making himself invisible. The taut thriller utilized small moments in intimate settings to dial up the tension and make the audience a part of Moss's desperate attempts to escape the clutches of an invisible terror. The film was scary in a way that Dracula Untold or Tom Cruise's The Mummy could never hope to be and made healthy profits as a result. Now, David Koepp hopes to replicate that success with Bride of Frankenstein.

Bride of Frankenstein was a sequel to the original Frankenstein movie that debuted all the way back in 1935. It was inspired by a minor subplot in Mary Shelley's original Frankenstein novel where the doctor is coerced into making a new female monster to provide company for the original creature he had created in his lab. Bride of Frankenstein is considered a classic, and one of the most influential Universal Monsters movies in the horror genre.

Angelina Jolie was at one point rumored to be playing the lead in the reboot as the new Bride of Frankenstein. Talks for that film fell through, and now Koepp is working on bringing his own, small-to-mid-budget reinvention of the movie to the big screen, where it will hopefully meet with the same kind of success as The Invisible Man. This news originated at ComicBook.com.

Topics: Bride of Frankenstein, The Invisible Man

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