EXCLUSIVE: Peaky Blinders, Halo, and Robin Hood director Otto Bathurst has signed up to helm and co-produce Stone Village Television and BlackBox Multimedia’s latest adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.Bathurst will co-produce the premium TV series through his One Big Picture banner, the production company he co-founded with Toby Leslie in 2017.
The company is attached to Showtime and Paramount+’s $200 million venture to reimagine gaming franchise Halo for television.The Frankenstein project was first announced earlier this year.
Penned by Bradley McManus (Bodyguard of Lies) and set in pre-Victorian Europe, it focuses on the behaviors and obsessions of a scientist exploring the fine thread between life and death.Bathurst said: “We are
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