Paul McGuinan Replacing Shawn Levy As Director Of Fox’s ‘Frankenstein’

Fox has decided to remove Shawn Levy (Real Steel) from the equation of their upcoming Frankenstein. Rather than spend the $80 million budget that Levy wanted Fox has chosen to a pursue a more econmic route and has attached director Paul McGuinan (Lucky Number Slevin, Push) to direct.

“Levy wanted a big-budget version of the classic monster tale, according to sources close to the project, while Fox wants to keep costs on the project down.”

The film is being penned by Max Landis (Chronicle) who may be doing re-writes due to a new director being attached. In which case, I am hoping won’t take too long due to Landis currently working on the sequel to last year’s Chronicle at the moment. The actual content of the reboot is being kept under wraps but it’s being said that the story will be about “friendship and redemption.” Well, that’s definitely not what I was expecting it to be about. There has no announcement as far as when shooting will begin yet. This could definitely be an interesting project to keep an eye on with Landis and McGuinan behind it.

Source: Variety