Starring James McAvoy and Daniel Radcliffe, Victor Frankenstein was originally scheduled to hit theaters in candy corn season, but the big screen adaptation of Mary Shelley's 1818 novel will now come out when pumpkin pie and turkey are on the menu.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, 20th Century Fox has moved the theatrical release of Victor Frankenstein from Friday, October 2nd to Wednesday, November 25th—the day before Thanksgiving.
20th Century Fox swapped Victor Frankenstein with Ridley Scott's The Martian on the calendar, placing the Matt Damon-starring sci-fi film in the October 2nd slot to put some distance between the ambitious project and the crammed cinematic scene of Thanksgiving week (Creed, The Good Dinosaur, and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 2 are all slated to hit the big screen between November 20th – 25th).
Directed by Paul McGuigan (Lucky Number Slevin) from a script written by Max Landis (Chronicle), Victor Frankenstein stars McAvoy, Radcliffe, Jessica Brown Findlay, Andrew Scott, and Freddie Fox. Stay tuned to Daily Dead for further updates.
"James McAvoy is Victor Von Frankenstein and Daniel Radcliffe stars as Igor in a unique, never-before-seen twist on Mary Shelley’s classic 19th century novel. Told from Igor’s perspective, we see the troubled young assistant’s dark origins, his redemptive friendship with the young medical student Victor Von Frankenstein, and become eyewitnesses to the emergence of how Frankenstein became the man—and the legend—we know today."
Previously released set images via Empire: