First Look at James McAvoy & Daniel Radcliffe in “Victor Frankenstein”
James McAvoy and Daniel Radcliffe star in “Victor Frankenstein,” this
year’s grand spectacle of a production and character driven film contemporizing
one of the most beloved literary and film classics of all time under Paul
McGuigan’s direction.
In the coolest
and electrifying reimagining of the mad doctor and his creation, James McAvoy takes
on the titular role Doctor Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant scientist at the
forefront pioneering medical research. With his research and experiments on
trying to save lives, he then becomes obsessed with the idea of creating life
itself. Radcliffe, on the other hand,
plays Igor, Frankenstein’s trusty and equally brilliant assistant from whose
perspective the movie treads on.
McGuigan’s “Victor
Frankenstein” is an action adventure thriller, with a script by Max Landis
inspired by Mary Shelley’s novel, which was first published in 1818. In Landis’
version of Frankenstein the story is set later, in 1861, a time when science
was making rapid advances.
“It’s taking the
core themes of the book - the re-birthing idea, bringing the dead back to life
and the science of that and the moral issues it brings up and all of those
things. What Max Landis has done with his original script is cherry pick the
best bits from the book and the best bits from the movies of the past so it’s a
bit of art imitating art and reinventing it a little bit,” says McGuigan.
McAvoy adds: “The
themes are all still there. It’s about man trying to become the ultimate
creator, about whether that is right or wrong, and the discussion of that. It’s
also about obsession, and it’s about ravenous scientific advancement over moral
right and wrong, the film does pay homage to its heritage.”
“I think our
Frankenstein is a really kind of rip-roaring, fun adventure movie version of
Frankenstein. I would really struggle to
class it as horror. I think there are
horror elements to it and nods to previous versions of Frankenstein, but it’s
much more a film about – the thing that I hope will make it stand out is the
relationship between James’ character and I.
Victor and Igor are two people who come to need each other very much… Igor
feels forever that he has this sort of debt of loyalty and the film then
becomes about how much can that debt be pushed?
How much can that loyalty be pushed before – at what point do you have
to step out from the shadows of the person that created you and go, ‘I am my
own person?’ Or, do you forever defer to
the person that is responsible for your life?
So it’s sort of, it’s a film about relationships set against the
backdrop of creating monsters,” added Radcliffe in his previous interviews.
“Victor
Frankenstein” opens very soon this November 25 in (Phils.) cinemas from 20th
Century Fox to be distributed by Warner Bros.
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