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Date Posted: 03:02:53 09/24/11 Sat
Author: Rick
Subject: Re: Your favorite pick for Dr. Frankenstein
In reply to: DAN 's message, "Re: Your favorite pick for Dr. Frankenstein" on 07:35:51 09/23/11 Fri

In 1957, Hammer started working on the Frankenstein concept and was doing rewrites for the picture. Universal found out and threatened to sue for breech of copyright, under the reasons for borrowing themes from their 1930's films. In doing so, Hammer had to make original themes for the 1957 film and later, they licensed the rights to all of Universal's horror films. This is why Frankenstein was evil and new monsters were created for sequels, ditto, etc.

When it came time to remake The Wolf Man, they rejected Universal's concept and based "Curse of the Werewolf" on the 1933 novel, "Werewolf of Paris."




Rick

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