{"id":16041,"date":"2011-09-01T17:42:55","date_gmt":"2011-09-01T22:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=16041"},"modified":"2014-12-08T19:48:21","modified_gmt":"2014-12-09T00:48:21","slug":"levy-signed-to-frankenstein-has-he-abandoned-fantastic-voyage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2011\/09\/01\/levy-signed-to-frankenstein-has-he-abandoned-fantastic-voyage\/","title":{"rendered":"Levy Signed To FRANKENSTEIN, Has He Abandoned FANTASTIC VOYAGE?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/ShawnLevy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-15934\" title=\"Night at the Museum\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/ShawnLevy-300x195.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" \/><\/a>Shawn Levy has signed on to direct Twentieth Century Fox\u2019s planned retelling of the <em>Frankenstein<\/em> story.<\/p>\n<p><em>Variety<\/em>\u2019s Showblitz is reporting that the director has just signed on to direct the project that the studio is developing. Max Landis is currently writing a treatment for the film.<\/p>\n<p>Unclear, however, is Levy\u2019s status in relation to Fox\u2019s planned remake of <strong>Fantastic Voyage<\/strong>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2011\/08\/18\/will-shawn-levy-walk-off-fantastic-voyage\/\" target=\"_blank\">Last month<\/a>, we told you that Levy and the studio were not seeing eye-to-eye on matters of casting for the film and that if they couldn\u2019t come to an agreement he would leave the project. The <em>Frankenstein<\/em> film was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2011\/08\/25\/shawn-levy-may-leave-fantastic-voyage-for-frankenstein\/\" target=\"_blank\">one potential replacement<\/a> job that Levy had been considering.<\/p>\n<p>Levy beat out several other high profile directors for this film including Paul Greengrass, who had also been briefly attached to <strong>Fantastic Voyage<\/strong>, and David Yates for the gig.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Does signing for one film mean he has abandoned the other?<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2011\/09\/01\/levy-signed-to-frankenstein-has-he-abandoned-fantastic-voyage\/\" title=\"Levy Signed To FRANKENSTEIN, Has He Abandoned FANTASTIC VOYAGE?\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[2784,881,4276,1427],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16041","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-fantastic-voyage","8":"tag-frankenstein","9":"tag-max-landis","10":"tag-shawn-levy"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16041"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=16041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}