![]() And I tried to do that with the language, without alienating my readers. "So you feel you have to be respectful and try to keep the spirit of the original. "I was apprehensive, certainly in so much as you feel nervous taking on a literary classic and borrowing from it and reimagining it," he explained. Oppel admitted that there were challenges in taking a character so well-known and making it his own. Fearing that conventional medicine cannot save him, Victor turns to black magic. In This Dark Endeavour, young Victor feels compelled to find the Elixir when his beloved twin brother gets ill and may die. He also wondered what could happen to someone in their youth that would turn them into a man who goes around digging up graves and chopping up body parts and sewing them back together.Īs a starting point, he decided to tell the story of Frankenstein's hunt for the Elixir of life - something Shelley mentioned in her novel. "It made me laugh because I thought it was a rather disingenous statement to say that when you're doing things totally unlike what you imagine a happy, carefree youth would do," Oppel said. He was intrigued by how Frankenstein described his youth ("No youth could have passed more happier than mine"). It riffs off Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, a book that Oppel has always loved.Īfter re-reading the classic novel years ago, he began to wonder about Frankenstein's youth. This Dark Endeavour, which was released last month, tells the story of Victor Frankenstein at the age of 16. ![]() Because of this, he's trying to remain realistic, but hopeful about the book coming to a big screen near you. So far the film has a director: Matt Reeves, who directed the film Cloverfield (which is one of Oppel calls: "Godzilla done right."), and a screenwriter.īut just because the book has been optioned, has a producer, a director and a screenwriter doesn't mean it's going to get made. ![]() This time by Summit Entertainment and Karen Rosenfelt: The people who took the Twilight trilogy to the big screen. Now it's the author's latest young adult book, This Dark Endeavour: The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein, which has been optioned for a film. "That never got made," the Toronto-based author said pointedly over the phone. It's happened to many of his books before, including the Airborn trilogy, which was optioned by Universal Pictures and Stephen Somers, the man behind The Mummy movies. This isn't the first time a book of Kenneth Oppel's has been optioned for a movie.
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