James McAvoy and Daniel Radcliffe's take on Mary Shelly's classic has suffered a setback.20th Century Fox have today confirmed a delay in the release schedule of their upcoming supernatural movie Frankenstein. The latest adaptation of Mary Shelly's iconic horror novel will star X-Men: First Class' James McAvoy as the titular mentally unstable professor and Harry Potter's Daniel Radcliffe as his increasingly unhinged assistant Igor.
As it happens, this particular shift in the 2015 film calendar shouldn't have too much of a drastic effect in the long run. Rather than battling Taken 3, The Boy Next Door and The Man from U.N.C.L.E. next January, Frankenstein will instead go head to head with The Jungle Book and the twenty-fourth instalment in the James Bond franchise nine months later. Few industry analysts would envy a budding motion picture in its attempt to match the successes of Columbia Pictures' suave thriller behemoth, but at least with both McAvoy and Radcliffe attached, there's still a substantial chance that Paul McGuigan (who has helmed four episodes of the BBC's detective drama Sherlock already) will draw away some members of the crowd from Daniel Craig's third (and reportedly penultimate) performance as Ian Fleming's beloved British hero.
Frankenstein will now awaken in cinemas worldwide on October 2nd, 2015.
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