Bruce Campbell gives an update on Bruce vs. Frankenstein

Last Updated on July 30, 2021

Back in 2010, Bruce Campbell announced that he would be making a sequel to his 2007 directorial effort MY NAME IS BRUCE, in which he played a dimwitted, alcoholic version of himself and battled a Chinese deity called Guan-Di, the patron saint of bean curd. The sequel would be titled BRUCE VS. FRANKENSTEIN, and Campbell wanted to make it the "EXPENDABLES of horror" / the "IT'S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD of horror". He told Hero Complex, 

I want to get so many horror movie stars that people can’t possibly not see the movie. I want to give them other stuff to do. I want to have Kane Hodder be very particular about what he eats. I want Robert Englund to be a tough guy, like he knows tae kwon do or something. I want to find out the hidden sides of all these people. Some will play themselves, some will play alternate characters as well. I may approach Kane Hodder to play Frankenstein. He could be Kane Hodder himself fighting himself as Frankenstein. It could be crazy."

BRUCE VS. FRANKENSTEIN still hasn't made it into production, but while speaking to Diabolique Magazine recently Campbell revealed that he's keeping hope alive for it. The story is being turned into a graphic novel, which might then lead to a feature adaptation. 

I talked with Mike Richardson, who is my partner on this and we’re going to start with a graphic novel. So, I am going to adapt the screenplay. We’re going to put that out first so people in the industry can get a better sense of it. Mike has been selling a lot of projects to Netflix and he said that’s kind of the way to go with his material and fantasy stuff so he suggested we do that first. We’ll get a great artist, sell it in comic book form, people can totally see it and as a director, its kind of like doing storyboards. It’s a tremendous amount of extra prep that I can do just by going through it because I actually have to think about pages, panels and descriptions. It’s a format that’s not my normal format. Screenplay format, I can fart, I got that down. This is different with the way it looks on the page so it will be a very interesting translation process."

I'm very glad to hear that Campbell remains dedicated to making BRUCE VS. FRANKENSTEIN happen, because I really enjoyed MY NAME IS BRUCE and have been looking forward to this follow-up for a long time.