Bruce Campbell Shares His Plans For BRUCE VS. FRANKENSTEIN

Evil Dead franchise star Bruce Campbell has been wanting to make a sequel to his 2007 movie titled My Name is Bruce. In the film, Campbell played himself in the film and a group of fans come to him for help to fight off a real-life monster. The actor finds himself battling a dragon while trying to make a good impression on a teen's pretty mother.

The follow-up to the film is titled Bruce Vs. Frankenstein and it will take Campbell on an adventure where he takes on Frankenstein's Monster. While he would love to develop this into a film, he has other plans first. He is going to adapt the script that was written for the film into a graphic novel. In an interview with Diabolique Magazine he explains his reasoning for doing the Graphic Novel first:

"With Bruce vs Frankenstein, I talked with Mike Richardson, who is my partner on this and we’re going to start with a graphic novel. So, I am going to adapt the screenplay. We’re going to put that out first so people in the industry can get a better sense of it. Mike has been selling a lot of projects to Netflix and he said that’s kind of the way to go with his material and fantasy stuff so he suggested we do that first. We’ll get a great artist, sell it in comic book form, people can totally see it and as a director, it’s kind of like doing storyboards."

The actor went on to explain that while turning the story into a graphic novel comes with some advantages before making the movie, it’s also a medium that he’s not really familiar with, which poses some challenges:

"It’s a tremendous amount of extra prep that I can do just by going through it because I actually have to think about pages, panels, and descriptions. It’s a format that’s not my normal format. Screenplay format, I can fart, I got that down. This is different from the way it looks on the page so it will be a very interesting translation process."

Campbell also says that when they do make the movie, he’s hoping to enlist other well-known horror movie stars to join him like Friday The 13th star Kane Hodder and A Nightmare on Elm Street star Robert Englund:

"I want to get so many horror movie stars that people can’t possibly not see the movie. I want to give them other stuff to do. I want to have [Friday the 13th star] Kane Hodder be very particular about what he eats. I want [A Nightmare on Elm Street star] Robert Englund to be a tough guy, like he knows taekwondo or something. I want to find out the hidden sides of all these people. Some will play themselves, some will play alternate characters as well. I may approach Kane Hodder to play Frankenstein. He could be Kane Hodder himself fighting himself as Frankenstein. It could be crazy."

Well, I thought that My Name is Bruce was a blast and I would love to see Bruce Vs. Frankenstein gets made! I think this could make for an even better film! But, it looks like the graphic novel is going to come first.