ZACHARY QUINTO & DYLAN MCDERMOTT IN "AMERICAN HORROR STORY" SHOW! A BUNCH OF NEW FRANKENSTEIN PROJECTS! HARRY LLOYD IS "CLOSER TO THE MOON"! JAMES GANDOLFINI GOES TO "BIG DEAD PLACE" AT HBO

 For some reason FRANKENSTEIN is "in" in Hollywood again, and the latest project on the popular monster will be the one

which Shawn Levy (REAL STEEL) will direct for 20th Century Fox and which will bring a sci-fi spin on the traditional Mary Shelley story, focusing on themes of friendship and redemption.  There is also Guillermo del Toro's THE CASEBOOK OF VICTOR FRANKEN STEIN, and over at Summit they are preparing adventurous adaptation of THIS DARK ENDEAVOR book, which I mentioned back in May. Last year I also mentioned I, FRANKEN STEIN, highly visual fantasy thriller in which the original monster of Victor Frankenstein stands between the human race and an uprising of supernatural creatures determined to overthrow the world.

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According to "Deadline" charismatic Harry Lloyd, who played the naughty dragon prince Viserys Targaryen in GAME OF THRONES has joined Vera Farmiga and Mark Strong in

CLOSER TO THE MOON, a film set in 1959 Bucharest, where a group of former anti-Nazi revolutionaries refocus their skills against the communists and are arrested for robbing a bank under the guise of staging a film shoot. A year later, the culprits are sentenced to death but are first forced to reenact the caper in a propaganda film. I wasn't a fan of THE SOPRANOS, but those of you who were, might enjoy the fact that James Gandolfini and HBO are preparing a new show - BIG DEAD PLACE, about a man who went to work for the U.S. Antarctic Program thinking he'd find adventure, beauty, penguins and lofty-minded scientists. Instead, he found boredom, alcohol and bureaucracy.

I haven't mention this upcoming show before, but now I feel I have to since it's getting itself quite an interesting cast: according to "Deadline" our favourite Zachary Quinto has just joined Dylan McDermott and Jessica Lange in FX's new show AMERICAN HORROR STORY. Premiering this October, this strange show, from the creators of NIP/TUCK and GLEE, centers on therapist

Ben Harmon (McDermott) and his wife Vivien who, dealing with the aftermath of Ben’s adultery, move along with their kids into a new house that seems to know all about their fears and plays on them. Quinto, who will appear in at least four episodes, will play Chad, the gay former owner of the house who becomes friends with Vivien.