Danny Boyle might have created a monster with this summer's Olympic Games.
"Slumdog Millionaire" director Boyle, who was tapped as the Artistic Director for the opening ceremony of London's Olympic Games, tells Vogue [4] that he was inspired by Mary Shelley's classic horror novel "Frankenstein" when planning the show.
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"(There is) quite a lot of Frankenstein in the show," Boyle told the magazine (via the Huffington Post [6]). "I mean, we don't reanimate dead creatures, but we did use Frankenstein as a dry run for a lot of ideas for this."
According to Boyle, if all goes to plan, the venue where the ceremony will take place will look "like a cauldron, with all the people hovering over and around you."
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The opening ceremony for this summer's games has been named "The Isles of Wonder."
British director Boyle, who took home a Best Director Oscar for "Slumdog Millionaire," has a fair amount of experience with bringing Shelley's story to life. In 2011, he directed a production of "Frankenstein" for London's National Theatre, which which was broadcast to movie theaters last March.