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Wow. I gotta re-read Frankenstein.

Mom and I just saw a wonderful stage version of it at a movie theater, filmed two years ago for National Theater. In tonight's version, Johnny Lee Miller played the Creature and Benedict Cumberbatch the doctor. On Monday they showed the opposite casting.

Miller was grabbingly physical with his role, and got most of the better moments. By the end, the doctor is more of a monster than the creature.

I hope they won some kind of award for the lighting design.

Here's where to find screenings:

http://ntlive.nationaltheatre.org.uk/pr ... ankenstein

Ritterskoop wrote:Wow. I gotta re-read Frankenstein.

Mom and I just saw a wonderful stage version of it at a movie theater, filmed two years ago for National Theater. In tonight's version, Johnny Lee Miller played the Creature and Benedict Cumberbatch the doctor. On Monday they showed the opposite casting.

Miller was grabbingly physical with his role, and got most of the better moments. By the end, the doctor is more of a monster than the creature.

I hope they won some kind of award for the lighting design.

Interesting casting - don't both men play Sherlock Holmes on TV shows?

Yes, Cumberbatch is Sherlock in the BBC series and Miller plays him in CBS' "Elementary," which returns tonight.

earendel wrote: Interesting casting - don't both men play Sherlock Holmes on TV shows?

It's a bit of a stretch to call Cumberbatch's version of Sherlock a TV series, even by British standards. He appeared on three seasons of the British version of Sherlock (like CBS' Elementary, it's set in the modern day, only in London instead of New York). However, each "season" consisted of three 90-minute episodes, many of them updated versions of classic Holmes tales like Hound of the Baskervilles and A Study in Scarlet.

During the last season, Cumberbatch won an Emmy for Best Actor in a TV Movie or Miniseries, while Martin Freeman won the Emmy for Best Supporting Actor in the same category. Ironically, one of the people Cumberbatch beat out for his Emmy was Freeman, who was also nominated as Best Actor for Fargo.

The Cumberbatch Sherlock episodes are available online in a number of places.

Ritterskoop wrote:Yes, Cumberbatch is Sherlock in the BBC series and Miller plays him in CBS' "Elementary," which returns tonight.

Cumberbatch is in final negotiations to join the Marvel Universe as Doctor Strange.


I like him in Sherlock and also enjoyed his turn in the latest Star Trek installment.

silverscreenselect wrote:

earendel wrote: Interesting casting - don't both men play Sherlock Holmes on TV shows?

It's a bit of a stretch to call Cumberbatch's version of Sherlock a TV series, even by British standards. He appeared on three seasons of the British version of Sherlock (like CBS' Elementary, it's set in the modern day, only in London instead of New York). However, each "season" consisted of three 90-minute episodes, many of them updated versions of classic Holmes tales like Hound of the Baskervilles and A Study in Scarlet.

During the last season, Cumberbatch won an Emmy for Best Actor in a TV Movie or Miniseries, while Martin Freeman won the Emmy for Best Supporting Actor in the same category. Ironically, one of the people Cumberbatch beat out for his Emmy was Freeman, who was also nominated as Best Actor for Fargo.

The Cumberbatch Sherlock episodes are available online in a number of places.

Since they did it three times and there are more scheduled, I am fine with calling it a series (or a TV show) rather than a miniseries.