Kenneth Branagh's Frankenstein (1994)
Geek History Lesson
Jason Inman
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🗓️ 28 October 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | With the success of Bram Stoker's Dracula in 1992, was 1994's Mary Shelley's |
| 0:19.6 | Frankenstein an inevitability? Patrick thoughts? |
| 0:22.9 | Oh, a thousand percent. I don't think you can, I mean, at this point, you can't have like |
| 0:28.0 | one without the other. You can't have a sequel without a sequel without a reboot. Yeah, it's like, |
| 0:32.9 | it's like whenever you're tying in the universal monsters, they're always trying to pitch all of them together. Like, so you've got your Wolfman, invisible man, Frankenstein, Dracula, like those classic standard creature of the Black Lagoon. But it's like, I mean, if we're going for like the big three, so it's like you have your Dracula, We have Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula. |
| 1:01.8 | And then I would say obviously the next step or the follow up to that would have been this version of like Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. So you're saying this is the dark universe before. |
| 1:04.7 | Yes. |
| 1:05.3 | Yeah, exactly. |
| 1:06.2 | Before a universal pitch to the dark universe. |
| 1:09.0 | A starring Tom Cruise. |
| 1:11.3 | Yeah. Oh my God. Tom Cruise Starring Tom Cruise. Yeah. |
| 1:11.7 | Oh my God. |
| 1:12.9 | Tom Cruise, Johnny Depp. |
| 1:14.8 | Oh, boy. |
| 1:15.5 | What a time to be alive. |
| 1:18.1 | Well, Patrick, your answer has induced, nope, injected so much electricity into this podcast. |
| 1:24.1 | It's finally alive. |
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