Zelda Williams to make directing debut with ‘bonkers’ zombie comedy Lisa Frankenstein

Prepare to satisfy a brand new type of Frankenstein — and Frankenstein’s monster.

Zelda Williams, the actress, filmmaker, and daughter of the late comedy legend Robin Williams, is ready to make her characteristic directorial debut with Lisa Frankenstein, a zombie rom-com set in 1989.

Focus Options introduced the information Wednesday, and in addition revealed that Kathryn Newton (Freaky) and Cole Sprouse (Riverdale) will star within the movie. Diablo Cody (Juno, Jennifer’s Physique) wrote the script, which follows an unpopular excessive schooler who by accident reanimates a good-looking Victorian corpse throughout a lightning storm. She then begins to rebuild him into the person of her desires utilizing the damaged tanning mattress in her storage.

Filming is slated to start this summer season.

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Williams, 32, tweeted Wednesday, “I do know Hollywood will get a foul rep for regurgitating sequels and remakes and reboots time and again and over… and yeah, it completely does that! However it’s additionally lastly letting me take advantage of bonkers, great zombie script I’ve ever learn, and for that, I can be without end grateful!”

She additionally famous that she did not intend for Lisa Frankenstein to be her first movie within the director’s chair. “I had three movies crumble earlier than this as a result of motion pictures usually do,” she wrote. “It was discouraging, to say the least. However the truth this one survived and THRIVED to be my first? A f—ing present.”

As for Williams’ leads, Newton is understood for her work on TV sequence together with Supernatural, Huge Little Lies, and Halt and Catch Fireplace, and movies together with Blockers and Pokémon: Detective Pikachu. She’s additionally poised to make her Marvel Cinematic Universe debut in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. Sprouse was most lately seen on the large display screen in Moonshot and has the ultimate season of Riverdale arising later this 12 months on the CW.

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