Ghost House takes on Frankenstein

Sam Raimi's Ghost House Pictures is planning to bring The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein to the big screen. David Auburn has been hired to write the script, which is based on the Peter Ackroyd novel that chronicles the life of a young Victor Frankenstein:

"The story covers the youthful days of Frankenstein, who begins experimenting with corpses, influenced by the outspoken English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, whose Mary wrote the book. She's a character in the film as well."

This is a fairly early announcement, so there is no mention of a director or planned release date at this time. Continue on to read a full plot synopsis for the book...

[Spoiler Warning] "When two nineteenth-century Oxford students–Victor Frankenstein, a serious researcher, and the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley–form an unlikely friendship, the result is a tour de force that could only come from one of the world’s most accomplished and prolific authors.

This haunting and atmospheric novel opens with a heated discussion, as Shelley challenges the conventionally religious Frankenstein to consider his atheistic notions of creation and life. Afterward, these concepts become an obsession for the young scientist. As Victor begins conducting anatomical experiments to reanimate the dead, he at first uses corpses supplied by the coroner. But these specimens prove imperfect for Victor’s purposes. Moving his makeshift laboratory to a deserted pottery factory in Limehouse, he makes contact with the Doomsday men–the resurrectionists–whose grisly methods put Frankenstein in great danger as he works feverishly to bring life to the terrifying creature that will bear his name for eternity." [End Spoilers]