Overview
- Production is underway in Alton, Illinois for Herbert West: Reanimator with first-look images released by outlets this week.
- Joseph Morgan will play Herbert West and Katie Cassidy will play pathologist Kate Locke, and both are credited as executive producers.
- Michael Grossman is directing while Adam Simon and Tim Metcalfe are credited as screenwriters with an original screenplay/storyline credit to Jade Sandberg Wallace.
- Makeup artist and producer Jeff Lewis and his cousin Roger Lewis are financing and producing the film through their new company Woodlake Entertainment, bringing a practical-effects background to the production.
- The project is billed as a contemporary reimagining of H.P. Lovecraft’s 1922 short story and sits in the adaptation lineage that includes the 1985 cult film; no release date has been announced.