Haley Joel Osment was famous for seeing dead people when he was a little tyke, now he’ll play an adapted version of Victor Frankenstein, a literary character famous for waking the dead, in the new film adaptation of the Steve Niles graphic novel, Wake the Dead.
Wake the Dead is an adaptation of the classic Frankenstein story. Osment’s character, Victor Franklin, is a new take on Victor Frankenstein, the original moster creating doctor.
Scout Productions and Slasher Films — a production company created by Guns ‘n’ Roses guitarist Slash — are working together to produce the film.
There are several Frankenstein projects are coming to theaters soon, but this one will start shooting this fall. Meanwhile, Osment is also working on Sassy Pants with Ashley Rickards (“Kill Me Now,” “Fly Away,” “One Tree Hill”), Anna Gunn (“Red State,” “Breaking Bad”), Jenny O’Hara (“Mystic River,” “Devil”) and Diedrich Bader (“Napoleon Dynamite,” “The Drew Carey Show,” “Outsourced”).
Osment was nominated for an Oscar for his iconic childhood role in The Sixth Sense. Now we’ll have to see if he can live up to his early promise!
