Though she's got the iconic hair and the million-yard stare, the Bride of Frankenstein has never really been given her due in the annals of movie monsters. Now Universal is finally willing to give her a shot, but don't think it's out of some late-breaking sense of feminist duty. The studio that gave us dozens of B-movie monsters in yesteryear seems hellbent on reviving all of them for a new generation, and the Bride will be the next up to the plate.

THR's Risky Biz Blog is reporting that The Lucky One writer-director Neil Burger has been picked to write the screenplay, along with Dirk Wittenborn. Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini had previously been onboard, and planned to set the story in modern-day New York; apparently Burger won't really be working with that concept. In the original 1935 Bride movie the titular character, played by Elsa Lanchester, wasn't so much a main character as a plot device. But Burger seems to have bigger plans for the lady in white.