Ok, in recent memory, we’ve had zombie nazis in Outpost, Dead Snow and the upcoming Outpost: Black Sun and The 4th Reich. We’ll be seeing Nazis at the Center of the Earth later this year and Dracula is set to go head to head with Hitler’s henchmen in Fangs of War. Just what is next for cinema’s go-to bad guys? How about a twist on Mary Shelley’s classic in Frankenstein’s Army!
The synopsis provided is as follows:
“Frankenstein’s Army takes place toward the end of World War II, as Russian soldiers push into eastern Germany and stumble across a secret Nazi lab, one that has unearthed and begun experimenting with the journal of one Dr. Viktor Frankenstein. The scientists have used the legendary Frankenstein’s work to assemble an army of super-soldiers stitched together from the body parts of their fallen comrades – a desperate Hitler’s last ghastly ploy to escape defeat.“
Yep, I’m interested! A little digging on this project revealed a press release:
“Closing out its first week of principal photography in the ancient village of Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic, MPI Media Group and XYZ Films proudly announce the central cast of FRANKENSTEIN’S ARMY, an international gathering with European talent hailing from The UK, Russia, and Czech Republic.
The hotly anticipated action/horror film, set toward the end of World War II, stars Alexander Mercury (The Golden Compass), Joshua Sasse (The Big I Am), Luke Newberry (The Heart of Me), Andrei Zayats (X-Men: First Class), Mark Stevenson (The Last Horror Movie), Hon Ping Tang (The Fifth Element), Cristina Catalina (Eastern Promises), Robert Gwylim (Escape from Sobibor), and Jan De Lukovicz.
An announcement regarding the highly coveted role of Viktor, a charismatic but wildly megalomaniacal scientist whose experiments with the living dead could turn the tide for Hitler’s Nazi forces, is expected from the production next week…
The feature, currently filming in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic, is a co-production of MPI/Dark Sky Films, Los Angeles-based XYZ Films, and Pellicola of Amsterdam. Principal photography in Karlovy Vary is overseen by Prague-based Sirena Film. Shooting in and around Prague, the movie marks Dutch director Raaphorst’s debut after his award-winning Worst Case Scenario shorts took the internet by storm and catapulted his visionary alternate history of World War II into the public eye.”
Expect more news on this one soon, fiends…
