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| Is that the monster Holmes is facing in this image from the website? |
For just 3,000 euros you can be a murder victim – in a movie
called Sherlock Holmes vs. Frankenstein!
French filmmaker Gautier Cazenave is trying to raise 25,000
euros and is 20 percent there. As is crowdfunding custom, he is offering a
variety of incentives for those who kick in to support the project, ranging
from a “thank you” for 1 euro to a full producer credit for 10,000. You can find
them all on the website.
Mashups of Holmes vs. Dracula and Holmes vs. jack the Ripper
have been done to death (so to speak), but Holmes vs. Frankenstein is
relatively unplowed ground. The crowdsourcing website calls it “a sophisticated
gothic mystery movie, with witty dialogue, good old-fashioned action sequences,
a bit of romance, and yes, a monster.”
And more: “Filming will take place in Belgium, near the
German border. There is a beautiful castle there, by the name of Reinhardstein,
and extensive location scouting has already been done in the area surrounding
it.”
Actors are already lined up, notably Shane Briant,
who was Peter Cushing's assistant Simon Helder in Frankenstein and the Monster
From Hell. He plays the same character,
or one of the same name, in this film. The most intriguing name on the cast list,
at least to me, is Clement von Franckenstein, “who happens to be the real
Baron and has been an actor for the last 40 years or so.”
Eight actors are identified,
along with the parts they play, but apparently Sherlock Holmes has not been cast.
Maybe if you contribute enough money . . .
This has the potential to be a fun movie. I hope the project makes it to the finished line.
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