Gold and monsters

By: Patrick Sauriol
Date: Monday, July 14, 2003
Source: Variety

Looking to past genre literature for its future projects, Hallmark Entertainment will produce new versions of the classic novels FRANKENSTEIN and KING SOLOMON'S MINES for television. The pair of shows, both to be made as four-hour mini-series, will likely first appear on the company's cable network.

KING SOLOMON'S MINES, based upon H. Rider Haggard's book, will star Patrick Swayze (GHOST) as adventurer Allan Quartermain. The show will be directed by Steve Boyum and will film on location in South Africa later this month.

FRANKENSTEIN, based on Mary Shelley's novel, stars Alec Newman (FRANK HERBERT'S DUNE), Luke Goss (BLADE 2) and Julie Delpy (KILLING ZOE). That show will be directed by Kevin Connor and lens in Austria and Slovakia.


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