Wretched devil! you reproach me with your creation!
June 8, 2025 12:14 PM Subscribe
"I had a vision, an idea took shape in my mind: inevitable, unavoidble, until it became truth." A trailer appeared for Guillermo del Toro's upcoming Frankenstein film (Wikipedia; IMDB).
Expected November on Netflix.
Expected November on Netflix.
Reportedly it'll have a theatrical release, too!
It looks to me like some of the visuals reference Bernie Wrightson's wonderful illustrated edition of Frankenstein, published by Marvel Comics in 1983. I'm quite excited to see it!
posted by merriment at 1:19 PM on June 8 [3 favorites]
It looks to me like some of the visuals reference Bernie Wrightson's wonderful illustrated edition of Frankenstein, published by Marvel Comics in 1983. I'm quite excited to see it!
posted by merriment at 1:19 PM on June 8 [3 favorites]
Can't wait to see his treatment of the "Puttin' on the Ritz" scene.
posted by Schmucko at 1:31 PM on June 8 [16 favorites]
posted by Schmucko at 1:31 PM on June 8 [16 favorites]
del Toro is profoundly hit and miss for me. Visually, he always delivers. Unfortunately, he often forgets to get his story sorted. Here's hoping he does Mary Shelley's words the justice they deserve.
posted by philip-random at 1:34 PM on June 8 [2 favorites]
posted by philip-random at 1:34 PM on June 8 [2 favorites]
I'm excited for this movie. Frankenstein has a lot of really interesting and deep ideas in it that are lost in most adaptations. Can't tell from the trailer how many of them del Toro will get to but I think it will be at least some. Shooting the Arctic scenes is encouraging.
posted by Nelson at 1:41 PM on June 8 [3 favorites]
posted by Nelson at 1:41 PM on June 8 [3 favorites]
Oppenheimer by way of Mary Shelley
By way of Orkney I trust - specifically Swona.
posted by rongorongo at 2:07 PM on June 8
By way of Orkney I trust - specifically Swona.
posted by rongorongo at 2:07 PM on June 8
Bernie Wrightson's art was magnificent. I hope so as well, merriment.
posted by doctornemo at 2:32 PM on June 8 [1 favorite]
posted by doctornemo at 2:32 PM on June 8 [1 favorite]
del Toro is profoundly hit and miss for me. Visually, he always delivers. Unfortunately, he often forgets to get his story sorted.
Agreed. I think *Pacific Rim* has such great visuals and just *fun* that you forget/forgive the shaky plot that feels like it'll go off the rails at any minute. But he kept it together to the end through brute force.
Anyway, this looks good. Here's hoping.
posted by zardoz at 3:52 PM on June 8 [1 favorite]
Agreed. I think *Pacific Rim* has such great visuals and just *fun* that you forget/forgive the shaky plot that feels like it'll go off the rails at any minute. But he kept it together to the end through brute force.
Anyway, this looks good. Here's hoping.
posted by zardoz at 3:52 PM on June 8 [1 favorite]
I so dearly want to see this in the theatre; it looks visually stunning, like all his films do.
I have been obsessed with The Monster from the iconic '31 film ever since I saw an image of it in a comic book when I was about 5, and am truly interested with what del Toro makes of the monster in his film.
My latest portrait of Karloff as The Monster, still a work in progress.
posted by Phlegmco(tm) at 4:10 PM on June 8 [2 favorites]
I have been obsessed with The Monster from the iconic '31 film ever since I saw an image of it in a comic book when I was about 5, and am truly interested with what del Toro makes of the monster in his film.
My latest portrait of Karloff as The Monster, still a work in progress.
posted by Phlegmco(tm) at 4:10 PM on June 8 [2 favorites]
It looks to be better than Luc Besson's Dracula, which looks to be a waste of a perfectly good Christopher Waltz. For a milisecond I was intrigued at the prospect of a medieval Dracula- one focusing on him at the beginning of his accursed undeath in the 15th century.
Instead, this looks to be a reprise of Coppola's retelling, albeit with (hopefully) better acting but (probably) less intriguing cinematography.
posted by LeRoienJaune at 4:42 PM on June 8 [1 favorite]
Instead, this looks to be a reprise of Coppola's retelling, albeit with (hopefully) better acting but (probably) less intriguing cinematography.
posted by LeRoienJaune at 4:42 PM on June 8 [1 favorite]
I guess it’s time for me to read the Shelly book.
It’s a good read!
I’m excited, this is great. Really hope I can see it in a theatre.
The lightning rod thing is a cinematic invention but the arctic expedition is often left out of film adaptations so who knows where he’s going with it. The monster will be cool though, you can count on that.
Del Toro came out for a local indie cinema when it was threatened by landlords, so he’s pretty all right in my book. I’d love to see it there, ideally.
posted by rodlymight at 5:35 PM on June 8 [1 favorite]
It’s a good read!
I’m excited, this is great. Really hope I can see it in a theatre.
The lightning rod thing is a cinematic invention but the arctic expedition is often left out of film adaptations so who knows where he’s going with it. The monster will be cool though, you can count on that.
Del Toro came out for a local indie cinema when it was threatened by landlords, so he’s pretty all right in my book. I’d love to see it there, ideally.
posted by rodlymight at 5:35 PM on June 8 [1 favorite]
The thing that yanked me right out of Branagh's version was when he (playing Victor) was in his lab, shirtless (oh you!), and he's so buff that I wondered where he was hiding the Bowflex in the lab. At the very least, this will probably avoid that.
posted by Halloween Jack at 5:38 PM on June 8 [1 favorite]
posted by Halloween Jack at 5:38 PM on June 8 [1 favorite]
That's an excellent portrait, Phlegmco(tm)!
posted by doctornemo at 5:43 PM on June 8
posted by doctornemo at 5:43 PM on June 8
I guess it’s time for me to read the Shelley book.
It's always a good time. I recommend the 1818 edition and remembering how old Mary was when she wrote it. And thinking of her friends and family.
posted by doctornemo at 5:44 PM on June 8
It's always a good time. I recommend the 1818 edition and remembering how old Mary was when she wrote it. And thinking of her friends and family.
posted by doctornemo at 5:44 PM on June 8
love del Toros work I saw a show sometime back where he took someone through his office I believe and it was one of the most wonderful spaces I have seen.
needs more Ygor?
I think it's interesting and perhaps true to the novel that they've apparently left out the Igor character. I could see how it would really ruin a character interaction within a plot line. I did not know that igor was a composite character.
posted by clavdivs at 5:54 PM on June 8
needs more Ygor?
I think it's interesting and perhaps true to the novel that they've apparently left out the Igor character. I could see how it would really ruin a character interaction within a plot line. I did not know that igor was a composite character.
posted by clavdivs at 5:54 PM on June 8
This looks terrific, and Oscar Isaac is a great choice for Victor. It looks like it might be as good as Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula (and certainly better than Kenneth Branagh's Mary Shelley's Frankenstein).
About the only person other than Guillermo del Toro that I'd trust to make an interesting version of Frankenstein would be Yorgos Lanthimos.
Of course, I could certainly imagine worse pairings of modern auteur cinema directors and gothic horror novels...
Quentin Tarantino's Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Christopher Nolan's Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Grey
Greta Gerwig's H.P. Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness
Wes Anderson's Edgar Allan Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher (featuring Owen Wilson)
posted by TheWhiteSkull at 5:56 PM on June 8
About the only person other than Guillermo del Toro that I'd trust to make an interesting version of Frankenstein would be Yorgos Lanthimos.
Of course, I could certainly imagine worse pairings of modern auteur cinema directors and gothic horror novels...
Quentin Tarantino's Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Christopher Nolan's Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Grey
Greta Gerwig's H.P. Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness
Wes Anderson's Edgar Allan Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher (featuring Owen Wilson)
posted by TheWhiteSkull at 5:56 PM on June 8
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