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Oscar-winning director Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein will release on Netflix tomorrow, November 7.
Based on Mary Shelley’s 1818 namesake novel, the gothic science fiction story explores the brilliant but egotistical scientist Baron Victor Frankenstein, played by Oscar Isaac. He brings the monstrous creature to life in an experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of the creator and his tragic creation.
In 2007, Guillermo said it was a project he would “kill to make.” The following year, he revealed that he was in the process of crafting drawings that would serve as the basis for the film’s setting.
“What I’m trying to do is take the myth and do something with it, combining elements of Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein without making it just a classical myth of the monster,” the filmmaker said in an interview.
“The best moments in my mind from Frankenstein, the novel, are yet to be filmed,” he added, referring to previous media adaptations of the classic.
In an interview, Jacob Elordi, who plays The Creature, said the role was the most demanding of his career, as he sometimes needed to arrive at the makeup trailer at 10pm and stay up all night undergoing the transformation.
“You throw time away when you make a film like this,” he said.
“I stopped having a clock, and I would just wait until the SUV arrived. That meant it was time to go. I didn’t think about breakfast, lunch or dinner, or divide the day into morning, afternoon, and night. It was just one time.”
