Bill Nighy eyes Frankenstein's villain

Nighy"Pirates from the Caribbean" villain Bill Nighy is within discussions to experience the baddie once more in Lakeshore Entertainment and Hopscotch Features' "I, Frankenstein," while Australian thesp Socratis Otto is placed to co-star among his evil henchmen. Aaron Eckhart toplines the pic, which Lionsgate is aboard to distribute within the U.S. Stuart Beattie is pointing from their own script, with different graphic novel by Kevin Grevioux, co-creator from the "Underworld" franchise. Eckhart stars as Adam, Frankenstein's monster who's being hunted by devils that would like to learn the key of his creation to be able to build an military of reanimated corpse devils. Nighy is within foretells play a demon prince. Otto will have his compatriot who's assigned with searching for and taking Adam. Lakeshore's Tom Rosenberg, Gary Lucchesi and Richard Wright will produce with Hopscotch's Andrew Mason, while Grievoux will professional produce with Hopscotch's Troy Lum. Lionsgate professional Michael Paseornek will oversee the work for the studio. Production is scheduled to begin in The month of january around australia, using the pic skedded for domestic release on February. 22, 2013. Nighy, who next voices Grandsanta in Sony's animated pic "Arthur Christmas," has an assorted quartet of films coming. He stars alongside Judi Dench and Maggie Cruz in John Madden's "The Very Best Exotic Marigold Hotel," and reprises his role as Hephaestus in WB/Legendary's "Wrath from the Leaders." Brit thesp also co-stars in Bryan Singer's "Jack the Giant Killer" and plays Kuato in Columbia Pictures' remake of "Total Recall." Otto, who lately wrapped Lakeshore's Amanda Seyfried-brought thriller "Gone," got his begin the Aussie TV series "Home and Away," that also released the careers of Chris Hemsworth and Isla Fisher. Nighy is repped by WME and Markham, Froggatt and Irwin, while Otto is repped by Thruline Entertainment and El Erdmane at RGM Artist Group. Contact Shaun Sneider at shaun.sneider@variety.com