{"id":46761,"date":"2013-07-26T10:21:42","date_gmt":"2013-07-26T09:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=46761"},"modified":"2013-07-26T10:39:27","modified_gmt":"2013-07-26T09:39:27","slug":"james-mcavoy-to-play-victor-von-frankenstein-for-fox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/james-mcavoy-to-play-victor-von-frankenstein-for-fox\/","title":{"rendered":"James McAvoy to play Victor von Frankenstein for Fox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_46763\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46763\" style=\"width: 616px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/McAvoy.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-46763\" alt=\"James McAvoy in Danny Boyle's Trance\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/McAvoy.jpg\" width=\"616\" height=\"391\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/McAvoy.jpg 616w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/McAvoy-300x190.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 616px) 100vw, 616px\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-46763\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">James McAvoy in Danny Boyle&#x2019;s Trance<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>James McAvoy has been chosen by Fox to take the role of Victor von Frankenstein in <em>Sherlock<\/em> director Paul McGuigan&#x2019;s upcoming <em>Frankenstein<\/em> adaptation, written by Max Landis.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Deadline\" href=\"http:\/\/www.deadline.com\/2013\/07\/james-mcavoy-tapped-by-fox-to-play-victor-von-frankenstein\/\">Deadline<\/a> reports that negotiations are underway for the <em>X-Men<\/em> star to join Daniel Radcliffe, who is playing the role of Igor. It was recently announced that Landis would not be returning to write <em>Chronicle 2<\/em>, so it will be interesting to see what approach he takes with Mary Shelley&#x2019;s novel.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You can <a title=\"Chronicle\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Chronicle-Extended-Edition-Blu-ray-Digital\/dp\/B005ZCH4VQ\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1374829691&sr=8-1&keywords=chronicle\">buy <em>Chronicle<\/em> on Blu-ray for &#xA3;7.75 at Amazon.co.uk.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox wants James McAvoy to join Daniel Radcliffe&#8217;s Igor in Frankenstein<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":46763,"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":[2615,3],"tags":[2029,874,1240,2334],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/McAvoy.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46761"}],"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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}