Victor Frankesntein Trailer

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Victor Frankenstein Trailer:

From first looks at this clip it feels a lot like a mad scientist version of Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes movies.

McAvoy is the narcissistic, sardonic genius as Victor Frankenstein and Radcliffe is his loyal, pragmatic sidekick as Igor (without whom Victor would be lost). It all looks … interesting. Director Paul McGuigan hasn’t directed a feature film since the B-level superpower movie Push back in 2009, and before that it was Lucky Number Slevin. But he did direct a handful of episodes in the smashing Sherlock series starring Benedict Cumberbatch (Sherlock alert!). And the screenplay comes from Max Landis, who’s been quiet since his breakout with Chronicle but has four movies slated to come out this year, including this week’s Jesse Eisenberg assassin vehicle, American Ultra.

With Landis and McGuigan combined, that’s quite the mish-mash of sensibilities, but off-kilter action with a strong central relationship at the core seems to be a connecting factor. To Radcliffe’s credit, he has been making enjoyably strange choices since turning into a full-blown grown-up actor, and like Horns before it, Victor Frankenstein looks like it’s either going to go horribly right or horribly wrong, depending on your sensibilities.