{"id":16303,"date":"2011-08-11T14:35:22","date_gmt":"2011-08-11T13:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=16303"},"modified":"2011-08-11T14:35:23","modified_gmt":"2011-08-11T13:35:23","slug":"house-producers-looking-to-launch-frankenstein-tv-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/house-producers-looking-to-launch-frankenstein-tv-series\/","title":{"rendered":"House producers looking to launch Frankenstein TV series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-16304\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/house-producers-looking-to-launch-frankenstein-tv-series\/attachment\/sjff_01_img0185\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-16304\" style=\"margin: 3px;\" title=\"sjff_01_img0185\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/sjff_01_img0185-300x226.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" \/><\/a>House<\/em> executive producers Russel Friend and Garrett Lerner\u00a0are planning to update Mary Shelley&#8217;s classic gothic horror novel <em>Frankenstein<\/em> as a TV series for NBC.<\/p>\n<p>While the copyright on the original novel <em>Frankenstein<\/em> has long since expired, Universal do own the original, 1931 movie depiction brought to (un)life so iconically by the late Boris Karloff in his mighty forehead and bolts on the neck form, giving them a slight edge <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/jones-frankenstein-a-reinvention-of-shelleys-classic\/\">over the competition<\/a> in terms of brand recognition. It&#8217;s not known how this will impact on the eventual series, but it&#8217;s certainly worth noting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Universal plan to update the gothic horror classic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":16304,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[140,3],"tags":[874,2081,509],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/sjff_01_img0185.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16303"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}