Director Guillermo del Toro has finally had the chance to make one of his dream projects, an adaptation of Mary Shelley’s classic tale Frankenstein that is set up at the Netflix streaming service. The movie reached select theatres on October 17th, with its Netflix premiere to follow on November 7th – and to celebrate Halloween, Netflix just unveiled the final trailer for the film! You can check it out in the embed above.
Last night, October 30th, Netflix kicked off their Frankenstein / Halloween festivities with “a breathtaking display above Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Hundreds of drones lit up the sky, spelling out a 650-foot-wide Frankenstein title and conjuring a mesmerizing lightning storm above the city. Tonight, the celebration continues as Frankenstein takes over Hollywood. Landmarks like Capitol Records and the TCL Chinese Theatre will be transformed by haunting projection mapping, while synchronized drone-powered lightning strikes will ignite the skies above iconic Hollywood monuments, transforming Los Angeles into a storm-charged cinematic spectacle.”
JoBlo’s own Chris Bumbray recently had the chance to watch del Toro’s Frankenstein, and you can read his 7/10 review at THIS LINK. The film shows us what happens when, driven by arrogance, his hunger to unlock the secret of eternal life, and his own growing madness, Victor Frankenstein creates life without ever considering what would happen to the wretched creature who, by design, is cursed to live forever. Here’s the official logline: Oscar-winning director Guillermo del Toro adapts Mary Shelley’s classic tale of Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant but egotistical scientist who brings a creature to life in a monstrous experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of both the creator and his tragic creation.
Oscar 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… and the role Garfield passed over to Elordi was the Monster.
Del Toro has been talking about making a new version of Frankenstein for 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’s Monster. The movie got far enough into pre-production that Jones even saw a Monster bust inspired by Bernie Wrightson’s artwork in an illustrated adaptation of Shelley’s novel, which Wrightson spent seven years working on. But then the project fell apart. Now it’s finally happening at the Netflix streaming service, which previously teamed with del Toro on Pinocchio and the anthology series Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities.
While del Toro has previously said that this is “an incredibly emotional movie” that he doesn’t consider to be a horror film, the Motion Picture Association ratings board have given the film an R rating for bloody violence and grisly images.
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