Writer/director Guillermo del Toro has spent most of his career in Hollywood trying to get a new “Frankenstein” movie made, a passion project that the filmmaker once tried to do at Universal Pictures before it eventually landed at Netflix instead with a high-profile cast that features Oscar Isaac, Jacob Elordi, Mia Goth, and Christoph Waltz.
New images from sci-fi horror pic based on the iconic Mary Shelly novel, courtesy of a new profile from Vanity Fair, have made their way online, which do a great job showcasing the impressive adaptation from del Toro that is heading to Netflix sometime in November (we’re still waiting on a concrete date).
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One of the most notable aspects here is that we get a solid glimpse of Elordi (who replaced Andrew Garfield at the last minute) as Frankenstein’s monster, the creature created from various parts of corpses and resurrected with the help of the mad scientist’s ambition to reanimate the dead using Victorian technology.
We’ve known for ages that the artwork of the late comic book artist Bernie Wrightson (“Swamp Thing”), from his illustrated version of the Shelly novel published in 1983, would be used for the film, after del Toro licensed those illustrations and would inform the new cinematic look of the monster.
“I turned it into this shrine to all things that I felt pertained to the creature,” Elordi told VF that the artwork greatly influenced the monster’s look. “Bernie’s pictures were all over the walls. Maybe when you’re asleep, or just by walking around it all, you end up soaking it in.”
From a visual and set standpoint, this new iteration of “Frankenstein” feels a lot more like how Francis Ford Coppola tackled his “Dracula” movie back in 1992, as you can get a real sense of care being taken on all levels. We see plenty of striking practical effects mixed with some fantastical costumes and sets, leaning hard into the look of the film that certainly homages what came before, but also feels like it’ll attempt to do its own thing at the same time.
Other actors on the call sheet in supporting roles include Charles Dance (“Game of Thrones”), Felix Kammerer (“All Quiet On The Western Front”), Lars Mikkelsen (“Ahsoka”), Ralph Ineson (“The Fantastic Four”), and Burn Gorman (“Pacific Rim”).
You can view those new still images from del Toro’s “Frankenstein” remake below.
