Sean Bean to star in The Frankenstein Chronicles

Blending the investigation and horror genres together, ITV has ordered a six-part period crime drama called The Frankenstein Chronicles, to broadcast on the channel ITV Encore as the first original drama for the pay outlet since its launch (earlier this year).

The Frankenstein Chronicles is a re-imagination of the Frankenstein myth starring the beloved Sean Bean as the cunning inspector John Marlott.

 

The show was introduced by the same ITV with this description:

The Home Secretary Sir Robert Peel, following a successful operation by Thames River Police to apprehend a gang of opium smugglers, recruits Marlott.

 

As he stands on the water’s edge contemplating the arrest of the smugglers, Marlott makes a shocking discovery. The body of a dead child is washed up on the shore and on further examination of the corpse he is horrified to discover it’s not actually a child but rather a crude assembly of body parts arranged in a grotesque parody of a human form. The mutilated child-like body leaves an indelible impression on Marlott and he finds himself unable to shake off the memory of what has happened that fateful night.

 

With a formidable reputation as an investigator, he is known as a man who doesn’t know the meaning of fear, so it comes as no surprise when coldly efficient Peel, summons him insisting the “details of your investigation must remain confidential.

The Frankenstein Chronicles will be produced by David Tanner for Rainmark Films and Carol Moorhead with filming slated to begin in Northern Ireland in January 2015.

 

Credits to Deadline.