‘Bride of Frankenstein’ remake is in the works at Universal according to screenwriter David Koepp. The project was dead at one point after the failure of the Tom Cruise reboot of ‘The Mummy’. But now with the success of the Universal Reboot of ‘The Invisible Man’, Universal is back on board with ‘Bride”.
“That was one thing I did during quarantine – I brought back Bride of Frankenstein into a place where I kind of always wanted it to be. Universal was very gracious to let me try again. Because they had geared up and shut down famously in the Dark Universe fiasco. Well, not a fiasco, but a disappointment. So I have a version now and they have a version that we all really like. I think they’re talking to directors now,” Koepp said.
David Koepp is a screenwriter/director best know for writing the scripts for ‘Jurassic Park’, ‘Panic Room’, Mission Impossible’, and ‘Stir of Echoes’. His latest work is being released on June 19, 2020 entitled ‘You Should Have Left’ starring Kevin Bacon.
“Not all ideas work out,” Koepp explained. “To their credit, what I really admired about Universal is they threw their hands up and went, ‘Hold on. This isn’t working out. Let’s stop and think for a year or two.’ I thought that was really smart. And big corporations don’t often do that. There aren’t a lot of New Coke moments where they go, ‘This is not as we hoped. We’re going to stop and go off in this other direction.”
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