Producer Alex Kurtzman Talks The Bride of Frankenstein
Steve Barton
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Everyone’s buzzing about Universal’s Dark Universe, which will bring together movies’ greatest monsters in an all-out Avengers style monster mash! Next up after this weekend’s The Mummy will be Bill Condon’s The Bride of Frankenstein.
Recently Den of Geek sat down with producer Alex Kurtzman to get the early lowdown on the still brewing installment.
“David Koepp wrote a brilliant script. A brilliant script with a very unique structure and a central relationship that I think is gonna be relatable to a lot of people while also being very true to what I believe people love about Bride,” Kurtzman told the site. “Here’s the weird thing about Bride of Frankenstein: It is one of the weirdest movies you’ll ever see in your life. It is such a strange film. What amazes me is that the Bride doesn’t show up until, what, the last ten minutes of the film? Doesn’t say anything, rejects Frankenstein, he pulls a lever, and the building explodes; and that’s the end of it. It’s not like she has long monologues, it’s not like you get to know her character, it’s not like she goes out into the world. There’s almost no screen time with her.”
Kurtzman continues, “And yet, everybody remembers the iconic look, the hair, who she was. Articles have been written, there’s Halloween costumes. It’s an enduring character because there’s something mysterious about her and that look and the idea that she was created to serve another man. Which is gonna be an interesting thing to tackle in this day and age. It might be something we subvert in our film. It will be really interesting to see where we go because I actually think that Bride is maybe a lot more accessible as a character than you may think. Mostly because she’s not really a character yet based on the original Bride of Frankenstein.”
Look for The Bride of Frankenstein February 14, 2019.
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