{"id":156124,"date":"2025-09-23T19:39:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T19:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/156124\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T19:39:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T19:39:08","slug":"this-movie-closes-the-cycle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/156124\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018This movie closes the cycle\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

When you see a single frame from a Guillermo del Toro<\/a> movie, you know it\u2019s one of his. Gorgeous production design, affectionately monstrous creatures, white-collar human villains, a deeply Gothic visual sensibility; his work has all kinds of hallmarks, while remaining fresh every time. And yet, as he finally makes his\u00a0Frankenstein<\/a>\u00a0adaptation \u2013 something of a white whale project \u2013 it seems the director envisions himself at the end of a particular era.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis movie closes the cycle,\u201d he tells\u00a0Empire\u00a0in the\u00a0Wicked: For Good\u00a0issue<\/a>. \u201cIf you look at the lineage, from\u00a0Cronos<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0The Devil\u2019s Backbone<\/a>, to\u00a0Pan\u2019s Labyrinth<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0Crimson Peak<\/a>\u00a0to this, this is an evolution of a certain type of aesthetic, and a certain type of rhythm, and a certain type of empathy.\u201d It\u2019s an evolution that has maybe reached its apotheosis. \u201cI feel like I need a change,\u201d he admits \u2013 with the caveat that he may well change his mind. \u201cYou never know,\u201d he says. \u201cThe day after tomorrow, I may want to do\u00a0Jekyll & Hyde, or whatever. But right now, my desire is to try and do something very different.\u201d<\/p>\n

While\u00a0Frankenstein\u00a0marks the end result of a long production and development journey, don\u2019t expect every del Toro film-that-got-away project to eventually make it to our screens. \u201cThe one that\u2019s on the bucket list that I think is gonna stay there is [At The Mountains Of Madness],\u201d he says. \u201cIt\u2019s too big, too crazy, too R-rated, I guess. And to be completely candid, I don\u2019t know that I want to do it after this.\u201d Whatever comes next, the world will be watching.<\/p>\n

\"Empire<\/p>\n

Read\u00a0Empire\u2019s full\u00a0Frankenstein\u00a0feature \u2013 going on set of Guillermo del Toro\u2019s adaptation \u2013 in the\u00a0Wicked: For Good\u00a0issue, on sale Thursday 25 September. Pre-order a copy online now<\/a>.\u00a0Frankenstein\u00a0is in cinemas from 17 October, and on Netflix from 7 November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When you see a single frame from a Guillermo del Toro movie, you know it\u2019s one of his.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156125,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-156124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}