Variety reports:
With the half-dozen or so Frankenstein-themed projects percolating in Hollywood, it looks like “Wake the Dead” is getting up off the gurney first, with Haley Joel Osment set to star in the retelling that’s set in the present day.
Jay Russell will helm the horror pic based on the graphic novels by Steven Niles, with Osment playing the role of Victor Franklin, a college student experimenting with reversing death.
This one is under the horror banner of Slasher Films, which was formed by Saul Hudson (a.k.a. Slash of G&R fame) last year. It is, however, the first of the thousand Frankenstein pictures to start casting. Does it raise my hopes up? No. Could it kill Osment’s career? Hopefully not.
What do you think of Osment waking the dead and not just seeing them?
I think Osment would do a good job just because he’s a suppurb actor. But the film itself may bomb
I do not like Osment.
He was also in Second Hand Lions which I thought was a great movie and I liked him in that
Haley Joel Osment has aged funny, he kinda looks like a young version of Moose from Archie comics. I really liked the kid in Sixth sense and Pay It Forward it’s too bad he’s decided to comeback with this film in mind, I would of expected a more dramatic film to be entered in the indie circuit.