Genuinely Scary JEKYLL & HYDE Reboot Interests FREAKY Director Christopher Landon
Happy Death Day and Freaky director Christopher Landon wants a genuinely scary version of Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
Landon tells ET: “Jekyll and Hyde. That’s the one I would love to do. Look, I mean, Leigh Whannell already has the best one, he made the best one. The Invisible Man was just a total home run and I think he’s gonna do the same thing with Wolf Man. So he’s got that corner. But I think Jekyll and Hyde would be a lot of fun because it’s just, as a concept, there’s a lot to mine there and I think it’s genuinely scary because I think we all kind of feel like we’ve got monsters inside us.”
Sounds good to me!
Robert Louis Stevenson’s Gothic novella The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was first published in 1886. It follows a London legal practitioner named Gabriel John Utterson who investigates strange occurrences between his old friend, Dr. Henry Jekyll, and the evil Edward Hyde. The novella refers to people with an unpredictably dual nature: outwardly good, but sometimes shockingly evil.
For those that may have forgotten, Universal’s first (and last) Dark Universe flick, The Mummy with Tom Cruise featured Russell Crowe as Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. But the less said about all that, the better, I think. The next installments of the Dark Universe franchise are Leigh Whannell’s The Wolf Man with Ryan Gosling and a new Dracula from director Karyn Kusama (Jennifer’s Body, The Invitation).
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