Daniel Radcliffe Set To 'Scare' Audiences In New Frankenstein Movie

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Daniel Radcliffe could be set to scare the living daylights out of his fans in his new role as Frankensteins hunchbacked assistant Igor in anew version of Mary Shelleys Gothic novel.

Thats according to screen-writer Max Landis, who hopes to make the movie fun sad and scary. Radcliffe will appear in the film, in another move away from his boy wizard persona.

"I started watching ALL of the Frankenstein movies, from Mel Brooks to Peter Cushing to Robert De Niro, and realised that the only time Igor's actually been... Frankenstein's assistant was in the f**king Monster Mash," Landis wrote in a statement released to Aint It Cool News .

"That's when the idea came to me: instead of trying to do some high minded 'revisionist' Frankenstein, why not try to stay true to a version that only lives in the zeitgeist, and has NEVER REALLY EXISTED, he added.

Daniel Radcliffe Set To 'Scare' Audiences In New Frankenstein Movie

Daniel Radcliffe will star in Frankenstein as Igor (Photo: FayesVision/WENN)

Mary Shelleys novel morphed into something quite different when Hollywood got hold of it, with the iconic form of Frankensteins monster most think of taken from Boris Karloffs performance in the 1931 film version rather than the description in the 19th Centrury novel

"And why not do it i! n an intelligent, hopefully, thoughtful way, about friendship and science, genius and madness, love and ambition, life and death? Landis continued, adding: "Why not use that imaginary, fairy dust framework of 'guy with hunchbacked assistant makes monster' and make it fun, sad, scary and hopefully, I really hope this, moving."

The most recent attempt to make a Frankenstein movie was Kenneth Brannaghs 1994 movie, which stayed true to the novel rather than the Hollywood image of the monster.

However Landis seems to want to go somewhere in between the two, making a dramatic film but including some of the more familiar film elements.

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