Sean Bean comes back to life

LOS ANGELES — Actor Sean Bean, whose credits include Game Of Thrones and Lord Of The Rings, will star in The Frankenstein Chronicles, a reimagining of Mary Shelley’s monster tale as a six-part period crime drama.

It may be ironic that the man who is best known for getting killed onscreen in a slew of films and TV series will now be in a project featuring a character who, in the well-known cinematic version, exclaims the now-iconic line “It’s alive!”.

The series has been created by director and writer Benjamin Ross, who was nominated for a Primetime Emmy for RKO 281, as well as writer Barry Langford (Torte Bluma). Ross will direct the series.

The series is set in London in 1827, with Bean playing Inspector John Marlott. It opens with the discovery of the corpse of a child that turns out to be a crude assembly of body parts. Marlott accepts the challenge to track the perpetrator of the crime.

“Marlott’s investigation takes him into the dark corners of Regency London,” Ross said. “He discovers an underworld of prostitution, drug smuggling, bodysnatching and murder for profit. The rational evidence points first one way and then another as he contemplates a frightening alternate scenario.”

Executive producers are Rainmark Films’ Tracey Scoffield and Frank Doelger, whose credits include Game Of Thrones, Rome and John Adams. REUTERS