Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein might just be one of the year’s most anticipated films for fans. The latest adaptation of Mary Shelley’s classic novel, del Toro has been working on the project since the early 2000s with Netflix officially coming on board in 2023. Earlier this year, it was announced that the long-awaited project would finally be headed to the big screen on October 17th and then would arrive on Netflix on November 7th. Now, just a few weeks before that theatrical debut, we’re getting the first full trailer for the film.
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This trailer is our best look yet at Frankenstein and comes four months after our first glimpse of footage from the project. Back in August during Netflix’s TUDUM, the streamer offered a chilling look at Oscar Isaac’s Victor Frankenstein seeking to create life out of death but this new, full trailer makes things even more interesting. Check it out below.
Del Toro’s Frankenstein’s Monster Will Be Unlike Anything We’ve Seen Before
One of the things that fans love and appreciate about del Toro’s work broadly is that the filmmaker brings his own, unique vision to the stories he tells and that vision comes down to even the finest of visual details. In the case of Frankenstein, Frankenstein’s monster — played by Jacob Elordi — has a look that is perhaps more artistic and aesthetic than previous iterations of the iconic character, something that del Toro has himself previously explained has long been how he sees the character.
This more aesthetic approach will certainly give moviegoers a fresh take at this classic character and story, one that has been adapted numerous times since Shelley’s novel was first published in 1818.
“Ever since I started drawing the creature in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s, I knew I didn’t want symmetric scars and I didn’t want sutures or clamps,” del Toro previously told Variety. “What I thought was very interesting was to make him like a jigsaw puzzle. I wanted him to look beautiful, like a newborn thing, because a lot of times, Frankenstein steps into the frame and he looks like an accident victim. But Victor is as much an artist as he is a surgeon, so the cuts had to make aesthetic sense. I always thought about him as made of alabaster. I never understood something about the other versions: why does Victor use so many pieces from so many bodies? Why doesn’t he just resurrect a guy who had a heart attack? And the answer for me was, what if the bodies come from a battle field? Then he needs to find a way to bring the corpses together in a harmonious way.”
Frankenstein opens in theaters October 17
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