Frankenstein Television Series Is Mooted

US network NBC are peparing a pilot episode of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, according to reports.

The show, should it get green-lit, would be a modern day interpretation of the 1818 novel, The Hollywood Reporter suggests.

The executive producers of House, Russell Friend and Garrett Lerner, will write the pilot for BermanBraun and Universal Media Studios, which currently owns the rights to the character.

Frankenstein has been one of Hollywood's most told tales, the most famous being Boris Karloff's 1931 version, Hammer's 1957 interpretation The Curse of Frankenstein, and a much maligned Kenneth Branagh effort, 1994's Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, which starred Robert De Niro as the monster.

The story has also been adapted for television twice before, with James Mason and Jane Seymour starring in a 1973 TV movie, and a 1993 TNT film with Patrick Bergin and Randy Quaid.

The story has also been a subject of parody, as seen most famously in Mel Brooks' 1974 spoof Young Frankenstein, and in the form of Herman Munster, who was a carbon copy of Karloff's interpretation of the monster.