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William McChord Hurt (March 20, 1950 – March 13, 2022) was an American stage, film and television actor, trained at the Juilliard School, Manhattan, New York, USA. For his leading role in the feature film "Kiss of the Spider Woman", he received an Academy Award in 1986, followed by 3 more nominations for roles in the movies "Children of a Lesser God", "Broadcast News", and "A History of Violence". He starred in films such as Body Heat (1981), The Big Chill (1983), The Accidental Tourist (1988), Alice (1990), One True Thing (1998), Syriana (2005), Mr. Brooks (2007), Into the Wild (2007), and The Yellow Handkerchief (2008). Hurt also portrayed Thaddeus Ross in five of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) films starting with The Incredible Hulk (2008) and concluding with Black Widow (2021). On television, Hurt received Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series playing a scientist in the FX legal drama Damages (2009) and for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie for his portrayal of Henry Paulson in the HBO movie Too Big to Fail (2011). He later acted in the legal drama series Goliath (2016–2021) and the thriller series Condor (2018–2020). On stage, Hurt appeared in off-Broadway productions of William Shakespeare's Henry V (1975), and A Midsummer Night's Dream (1982) as well as Lanford Wilson's Fifth of July (1978). He made his Broadway debut in David Rabe's dark comedy Hurlyburly (1984) playing a Hollywood casting director, for which he was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play.
William Hurt
Henry Clerval
for Henry Clerval in David Cronenberg's Frankenstein
Suggested by captainwhaddock
Not much is known about this project, except that it was proposed to David Cronenberg after he made The Fly in 1986 by producer Pierre David, who also produced Cronenberg's film "The Brood". It's surprising that this didn't happen, considering it is such an ideal match. While Mary Shelly's book isn't very body horror, the idea of creating a monster out of other people’s body parts is the basis of body horror. We know that Cronenberg wanted to stay closer to Shelley's version of the monster by making him a lot smarter and more sympathetic, like in the Bride of Frankenstein, so clearly, he wanted to do a more book-accurate film version of the tale. I'm fairly certain it would be set in the early 1800s, like the book was, and it would be interesting to see what Cronenberg would do with a period piece, as he has never done one other than Lunch, which was set in 1953. I imagine his version would be like a mix of the 1993 TV movie Frankenstein and Junji Ito's manga version of Frankenstein, with some influences from the Curse of Frankenstein (1957).
