Lisa Frankenstein: Carla Gugino joins Zelda Williams, Diablo Cody horror comedy

Carla Gugino has become a genre regular, largely thanks to Mike Flanagan. Her credits include The Unborn, Wayward Pines, Elizabeth Harvest, and the Flanagan projects Gerald’s Game, The Haunting of Hill House, The Haunting of Bly Manor, Midnight Mass, and The Fall of the House of Usher. Now Deadline reports that Gugino has joined the cast of another genre project, the horror comedy Lisa Frankenstein, which Zelda Williams is directing from a screenplay by Diablo Cody.

Williams is making her feature directorial debut with this film, which is set in 1989. Coming to us from Focus Features, the movie will show us what happens when

an unpopular high schooler accidentally re-animates a handsome Victorian corpse during a lightning storm and starts to rebuild him into the man of her dreams using the broken tanning bed in her garage.

Gugino joins the previously announced stars Kathryn Newton (Freaky) and Cole Sprouse (Riverdale). Also newly added to the cast are Liza Soberano (Alone/Together), Joe Chrest (Stranger Things), and Henry Eikenberry (The Crowded Room).

Newton is playing Lisa Frankenstein, Sprouse is the handsome Victorian corpse, and Chrest will be playing Lisa’s father Dale. Details on other characters have not been revealed.

MXN Entertainment’s Mason Novick is producing Lisa Frankenstein with Cody. Cody and Novick previously worked together on Tully, Young Adult, Jennifer’s Body, and Juno. Jeff Lampert serves as executive producer, while Focus Features’ Vice President of Production and Development, Michelle Momplaisir, is the creative executive on the project. Focus Features will distribute the film in the United States, and Universal Pictures International is the international distributor. Filming is currently underway in New Orleans.

Williams previously directed a horror comedy short called Kappa Kappa Die (which was scripted by Piranha 3D writers Pete Goldfinger and Josh Stolberg).

I’m looking forward to seeing how Lisa Frankenstein turns out. Are you interested in this movie? Let us know by leaving a comment below.