Aaron Eckhart is ready to breath some life into Lakeshore Entertainment’s I, Frankenstein, a futuristic re-imagining of Mary Shelly’s classic novel in which Frankenstein’s monster is created by Apple Inc. to replace Steve Jobs … what? Too soon?

I, Frankenstein is director Stuart Beattie’s (Tomorrow, When the War Began) big-screen adaptation of Kevin Grevioux’s (“Underworld”) graphic novel. A sequel of sorts, the story reveals that Victor Frankenstein’s monster did not commit suicide, but is instead living in a Gothic metropolis where two immortal clans have been feuding for centuries.

Says Eckhart:

Somebody says, ‘Do you want to play Frankenstein?’ and I was like, ‘Well, I haven’t thought about it. Then I read the script.

Whenever you read a script that you want to do, you start feeling yourself in that character. All of a sudden your juices start flowing. That’s how you know you should do a movie.

Now I’m gonna be Frankenstein and I’m kind of worried about it, actually. I’ve gotta go and figure out how the hell I’m gonna play Frankenstein.

Eckhart, who is coming off Columbia Pictures’ alien-invasion actioner Battle: Los Angeles, has starred in Chris Nolan’s The Dark Knight, Brian De Palma’s The Black Dahlia, John Woo’s Paycheck, Paramount Pictures’ The Core and Suspect Zero and the 2001 Sean Penn-directed serial killer drama The Pledge.

Eckhart is currently shooting Pan with Soul Surfer starlet AnnaSophia Robb. The Ben Hibon-directed film, a dark take on the classic Peter Pan tale, finds Eckhart playing a former detective named Hook, who is still on the hunt for a child predator Pan.