Dimension acquires "Madman"

By: Karl Schneider
Date: Tuesday, December 19, 2006
Source: Variety

According to Variety, Dimension Films has acquired the Michael Allred comic Madman and plans to turn it into a live-action film.

Madman is a post-modernist reimagining of the Frankenstein tale, with a superhero twist. Title character, killed in a car accident, is reanimated by an eccentric doc who names him Frank Einstein and instills in him enhanced senses, psychic power and exceptional physical skills. The doc can't fix his creature's face, so Madman wears a costume modeled after his fave superhero to hide his scars.

George Huang will direct the film from a script he will write with Allred.  Robert Rodriguez and Elizabeth Avellan will produce.

I don't know much about the comic, and while the material sounds interesting, the massive amount of comic adaptations forces me to stay uninspired by the news.

If anyone has more info on the comic and what kind of script we might see, I would love to hear about it in the comments section.