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That's NordVPN.com slash evolution of horror. After the financial success of Francis Ford Coppola's starry, glossy Dracula adaptation in 1992,

his production company, American Zoetrope, began developing an adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.

And, as with Dracula, this was intended to be a high-end, big-budget adaptation,

intended to be the most faithful adaptation of the story to date.

Coppola, serving this time as executive producer, immediately cast Robert De Niro as the creature,

and it was De Niro who chose Kenneth Branagh to direct the film.

Branner cast himself in the title role and brought Frank Darabont in to write a second draft of the screenplay,

making some considerable tweaks.

Branner wanted the film to feel like a Shakespearean

tragedy with echoes of Hamlet. His film, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, attracted a big audience

upon its release and was financially successful due to the star-studded cast and lavish visuals.

But the film was negatively received by critics at the time, and remains to this day

one of the more divisive adaptations of Frankenstein.

Join me as we continue exploring the evolution of man-made monsters, and we discuss Kenneth

Branagh's Mary Shelley's

Frankenstein.

Welcome back to the evolution of horror. My name is Mike Munser, and as ever I am your host.

In this podcast, we explore and dissect the history and

the evolution of the horror genre, one subgenre at a time. We are currently in the middle of our

11th season exploring the evolution of man-made monsters, and this is part seven. In this week's

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