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Dr. Bernard Adrian is a kindly mad scientist who seeks to cure a young woman’s polio. He needs spinal fluid from a human to complete the formula for his experimental serum. Meanwhile, a vicious circus ape has broken out of its cage, and is terrorizing towns people.
Douglas Preston, author of the bestseller The Monster of Florence, told Variety today that Tom Cruise and United Artists have acquired rights for the big screen adaptation of his serial-killer thriller of the same name. The script will be penned by Chris McQuarrie (Valkyrie) and produced by Tom Cruise who will then decide whether to… [Continue Reading]
Direct from Universal, Ain’t It Cool News has just received information that Oscar nominated and Grammy and Emmy award winner songwriter Danny Elfman will join The Wolfman crew to produce scores for the remake of the1941 classic horror, coming to theaters April 3rd 2009. Elfman’s impressive filmography includes scores from many of Tim Burton’s films… [Continue Reading]
Cryptozoo Crew, a series of graphic novels by Jerry Carr and Allan Gross, has been optioned by Alcon Entertainment. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Joe Gazzam (Scared Straight) will adapt the NBM-published material. According to the publisher, the series is about: “Yeti sightings are a dime a dozen. Outsmarting your spouse – now that’s priceless!… [Continue Reading]
America originally imported its monsters, bringing over vampires and werewolves as Europeans moved here from the “Old World”. We didn’t really have any monsters of our own until H.P. Lovecraft gave us the product of a fevered imagination. Since then, we’ve gotten pretty good at generating creepies and crawlies but monsters of any magnitude seemed… [Continue Reading]
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