Mary Shelley's classic novel Frankenstein will get a contemporary reimagining with Laura Moss making her feature directorial debut on the project. The Hollywood Reporter wrote that Fangoria, the horror fan magazine that was purchased recently by Cinestate, has acquired horror screenplay After Birth, a "female-fronted retooling of the 'Frankenstein' myth" that "follows a morgue technician who successfully reanimates the body of a little girl, but to keep the child breathing, she will need to harvest biological materials from pregnant women. When the girl's mother, a nurse, discovers her baby alive, the two women enter into a deal that forces them both down a dark path of no return."
Moss and Brendan O'Brien wrote After Birth. The Hollywood Reporter noted that Fangoria "has branched out into production, releasing its first film, Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich, earlier this month."