a new Hammer horror film?? they’re doing Jekyll and Hyde??
and it’s starring *checks notes* it’s starring
Suzy Izzard as Dr. Nina Jekyll??
[img 1: promo photo of Izzard as Dr Jekyll in a black suit jacket+skirt with walking cane, looking troubled in profile, in an eerie yellow room which also contains a marble bust]
[img 2: excerpt—
Details on the project have been scant, but today director Stephenson shares with Fangoria the first image of Izzard on set, and confirms that her character Nina Jekyll is a trans woman in the film’s narrative, lest anyone think we’re in for another helping of the gender-bending tomfoolery of past reimaginings like Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde.
“There have been over 100 cinematic adaptations of Stevenson’s novella, but there has never been a trans Dr. Jekyll,” says Stephenson. “There seem to be some assumptions that because Nina is a trans character, we are somehow going to make it about gender. That is not the case; the themes of our film are true to the original work.”]
this is the kind of character trait you put in an adaptation to COMPLEMENT its existing themes oh my god. ohhhhh my god. my favorite thing, “an overblown metaphor for thing AND the thing itself actually being depicted by someone who knows what the thing is” seems about to happen in this production :-0
