THR’s Heat Vision Blog is reporting that Lakeshore Entertainment, the production financing outfit behind the ‘Underworld’ films, is hoping to start a new action-horror franchise with ‘I, Frankenstein’.

The film version is based on a comic book from ‘Underworld’ co-creator Kevin Grevioux, who penned the script for both ‘I, Frankenstein and ‘Underworld: Rise of the Lycans’.

The project brings together classic monster characters - including the Frankenstein monster, the Invisible Man, Dracula, and the Hunchback of Notre Dame - in a contemporary film noir setting.

Patrick Tatopoulos is attached to direct, while Lakeshore’s Tom Rosenberg, Gary Lucchesi and Richard Wright are producing. Grevioux is exec producing along with Robert Sanchez of Death Ray Films.