{"id":119969,"date":"2025-09-04T18:45:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T18:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/119969\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T18:45:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T18:45:07","slug":"oscar-issac-talks-his-new-interpretation-of-victor-frankenstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/119969\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscar Issac talks his new interpretation of Victor Frankenstein"},"content":{"rendered":"

Director Guillermo del Toro has spent the last year and a half working on one of his dream projects, an adaptation of Mary Shelley\u2019s classic tale\u00a0Frankenstein<\/a>\u00a0that is set up at the Netflix streaming service.\u00a0The movie is set to be released in select theaters on\u00a0October 17, then Netflix on\u00a0November 7. While del Toro has said that this is\u00a0\u201can incredibly emotional movie\u201d\u00a0that he doesn\u2019t consider to be a horror film, the Motion Picture Association ratings board has revealed that this\u00a0Frankenstein\u00a0does has some bloody violence in it. In fact, they\u2019ve given the film an R rating for\u00a0bloody violence and grisly images.<\/p>\n

Oscar Issac recently sat down with Entertainment Weekly<\/a> and revealed that Del Toro kind of surprised him with a role offer when they first met. Issac explained, \u201cI didn\u2019t find out until the end of a two-hour sit-down. He said, \u2018I think you have to be my Victor.\u2019 And I said, \u2018What now?’\u201d He also talked about how his Victor Frankenstein will be portrayed in the film, \u201cWhen we first find [Victor], he is this ragged man at the end of the Arctic. He is terrified. He is running. You don\u2019t know if he\u2019s running away or running through something or what\u2019s going on. As Victor tells his tale, he begins with his father and his own creation. \u2018How was I created? How was this person created? And if I\u2019m gonna tell you about this horrible secret that I have, I must tell you how it got there. And that\u2019s with my own father.\u2019 So when Guillermo and I first met, that\u2019s what we mostly talked about. We didn\u2019t even talk about Frankenstein.\u201d<\/p>\n

Issac knew he would be in good hands when he discovered how big a fan Guillermo was of the original Mary Shelley novel. The star expounded, \u201cYou know, he has a house dedicated to Frankenstein. He\u2019s lived with this for 30 years. It\u2019s his bible. And yet, he has somehow believed [so much] in that love that he\u2019s letting it tell him what to do; he\u2019s not controlling it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Del Toro\u2019s\u00a0Frankenstein, which is a long-awaited passion project for the filmmaker,\u00a0might have the following logline:\u00a0Set in Eastern Europe in the 19th Century, the story of Dr. Pretorius, who needs to track down Frankenstein\u2019s monster- who is believed to have died in a fire forty years before\u2013in order to continue the experiments of Dr. Frankenstein.\u00a0Oscar Isaac (Moon Knight) stars alongside Mia Goth (Pearl), Jacob Elordi (Saltburn), Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds), and Charles Dance (Game of Thrones), with Ralph Ineson (The Witch) showing up for a pivotal cameo. At one point, Andrew Garfield was in the cast, but he had to drop out and was replaced by Elordi\u2026 and\u00a0the role Garfield passed over to Elordi was the Monster.<\/p>\n

Del Toro has been talking about making a new version of\u00a0Frankenstein\u00a0for more than a decade. Years ago, he had the project set up at Universal, with Doug Jones (The Shape of Water) on board to play Frankenstein\u2019s Monster. The movie got far enough into pre-production that Jones\u00a0even saw a<\/a>\u00a0Monster bust\u00a0inspired by Bernie Wrightson\u2019s artwork in an illustrated adaptation of Shelley\u2019s novel, which Wrightson spent seven years working on. But then the project fell apart. Now it\u2019s finally happening at the Netflix streaming service, which previously teamed with del Toro on\u00a0Pinocchio\u00a0and the anthology series\u00a0Guillermo del Toro\u2019s Cabinet of Curiosities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Director Guillermo del Toro has spent the last year and a half working on one of his dream…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119970,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75,23282,17731,367,1316,66795],"class_list":{"0":"post-119969","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-frankenstein","13":"tag-guillermo-del-toro","14":"tag-horror","15":"tag-netflix","16":"tag-oscar-issac"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}