Frankenstein: A Modern Myth
Tim Van Someren2012-10-31
6
60 min
From Boris Karloff to Mel Brooks - Frankenstein has fired the imagination of generations of artists who have created their own interpretation of this Gothic masterpiece. Frankenstein: A Modern Myth looks at some of these depictions, including Danny Boyle's sell-out hit at the National Theatre. The film has exclusive access to rehearsals and interviews with Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller - who alternate the roles of Victor Frankenstein and the Creature - and with Danny Boyle. It also features cult film director John Waters: "I'm sympathetic to monsters, and this was the first one I came across as a child".
Cast
| Name | Character | Team | |
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David Bradley | Self - Narrator (voice) | Unowned |
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Daniel Ings | Readings (voice) | Unowned |
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Sarah Mowat | Readings (voice) | Unowned |
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Danny Boyle | Self | Unowned |
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Benedict Cumberbatch | Self / Frankenstein / The Monster | Zac E. Chan |
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John Waters | Self - Director | Unowned |
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Jonny Lee Miller | Self / Frankenstein / The Monster | Unowned |
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Gwen Adshead | Self - Chief Forensic Psychotherapist, Broadmoor Hospital (as Dr. Gwen Adshead) | Unowned |
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Philip Ball | Self - Historian of Science | Unowned |
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Nick Dear | Self - Playwright | Unowned |
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Daisy Hay | Self - Mary Shelley Biographer | Unowned |
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Stephen Hebron | Self - Bodleian Library, Oxford | Unowned |
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Philip Hoare | Self - Writer | Unowned |
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Miranda Seymour | Self - Mary Shelley Biographer | Unowned |
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Helen Wallace | Self - Genetics Ethicist | Unowned |