Jacques Tourneur’s 1957 horror film
Film journalist, and overall horror scene personality, Chris Alexander got an opportunity to chat, on behalf of Fangoria, with Kenneth Branagh about his interpretation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.
Asked if he would return to the genre, Branagh revealed that he “loves” Jacques Tourneur’s 1957 film Night of the Demon and is “actively” trying to secure the rights to update the film. “I think it’s a sensational movie and I think it’s ripe for redoing,” he tells Alexander. Since Tourneur’s film is based on Montague Rhodes James’s “Casting the Runes” Branagh says, “We can be quite different with a new version of it.”
Of course, this will probably have to wait until he directs Thor for Marvel which is opening in May 20, 2011.
Source: Fangoria
