NBC Gives Existence to 'Frankenstein' Reboot

Jack Esten/Getty Images1957's "The Curse of Frankenstein" NBC is following in FX's actions and going through the horror genre, having a script order for Frankenstein. The script, referred to like a modern-day undertake the legend of Frankenstein, is going to be composed by House executive producers Russel Friend and Garrett Lerner for Universal Media Galleries and BermanBraun. The script order follows FX's series order for Glee duo Ryan Murphy and Kaira Falchuk's "psycho-sexual" horror drama American Horror Story, which Forex topper John Landgraf known to like a "breakthrough commercial bit of television that will be copied broadly if people discover it." Universal Galleries is the owner of the intellectual property privileges to Frankenstein, in addition to such other classic figures as Dracula, the Wolfman and also the Mummy. The legend of Frankenstein was initially told via Mary Shelley's 1818 novel. The very first film project, directed by J. Searle Dawley, arrived 1910, with reboots including Universal's 1931 Boris Karloff starrer. Universal was behind a number of films featuring the classic figures from 1942-48. The smoothness was notoriously spoofed via Mel Brooks' 1974 spoof Youthful Frankenstein. The storyline was modified for TV in 1973 with Leonard Whiting, Michael Sarrazin, James Mason and Jane Seymour. Other takes have incorporated the TNT telefilm in 1993 with Patrick Bergin and Randy Quaid. Email: Lesley.Goldberg@thr.com Twitter: @Snoodit NBC