Doctor Who showrunner Steven Moffat once made a Jekyll & Hyde TV series, that’s coming to the big screen — with Chris Evans possibly pulling a dual role.
A double dose of Chris Evans? It sounds too good to be true, and yet that’s exactly what Deadline is reporting might happen.
Steven Moffat, whose era of Doctor Who is ending after the 2017 season, will see his 2007 miniseries Jekyll adapted for the big screen (though Moffat’s own involvement is uncertain at this time).
Related: Chris Evans’ Gifted gets an April 2017 release date
Lionsgate has picked up the rights to the adaptation of the BBC series, with Ellen DeGeneres and Jeff Kleeman set to produce from a script by Anthony Bagarozzi and Charles Mondry.
Chris Evans is reportedly eyeing the lead role of Tom Jackman, a descendant of the split-personality doctor first dreamed up in Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1886 novel Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
In Moffat’s miniseries, which starred James Nesbitt, Jackman was a modern-day version of the classic character who slowly began to see traits of the split personality that haunted his ancestor.
As Deadline notes, this isn’t the only Jekyll and Hyde adaptation in development. As has become the norm in Hollywood, several versions of the story will be released within a couple of years of each other (see also: The Jungle Book, Peter Pan, and King Arthur). The other Jekyll and Hyde movie is from Universal, and will star Russell Crowe.
Chris Evans can next be seen in Marc Webb’s Gifted, the story of a single man raising his child prodigy niece, and who is drawn into a custody battle with his mother. The movie comes out April 12, 2017.
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