New Photos For Guilermo del Toro's FRANKENSTEIN Reveal Jacob Elordi as the Monster and Haunting New Details
Guillermo del Toro’s take on Frankenstein is coming to life, and the first look at the highly anticipated Netflix film has arrived thanks to Vanity Fair, giving fans a haunting tease of what's to come.
With a powerhouse cast and a visionary filmmaker at the helm, this remake is shaping up to be one of the most exciting monster movies in years and I can’t wait to finally watch it! This movie has been a long time coming.
The newly released photos give us our first glimpse at Jacob Elordi in his role as Frankenstein’s Monster. In one image, Elordi’s Creature is cloaked and masked, hiding his grotesque form from the world.
In another, he’s hunched and subdued, while Oscar Isaac’s Dr. Victor Frankenstein appears to be working on his tormented creation. Behind the scenes, Guillermo del Toro can be seen guiding the actors through the intense moment.
Elordi's full look is still under wraps, but the monster’s final form sounds absolutely wild. As del Toro describes it, “the creature resembles a marble statue from antiquity that has been shattered and fused back together.” Elordi joked that he missed out on the gnarly creation scene, saying, “I think that’s the one day I didn’t shoot.”
The film isn’t just going for scares and spectacle. Del Toro is digging into the emotional core of Mary Shelley's Gothic tale, specifically its overlooked themes of family dysfunction. “It’s parents and children,” Elordi explains. “Fathers and sons, particularly.”
Del Toro expands on this idea, drawing a line from Frankenstein to his other works. “These are the parallels between Pinocchio and Frankenstein,” he says. “It’s the idea of a person going from a baby to a human being in a short span of time and being exposed to everything—cold, warmth, violence, love, loss.
“And then going to his creator to say, ‘Why? Why did you put me here? Why didn’t you give me the answers? What do I have to learn in my suffering?’”
Del Toro even compares his creature’s suffering to that of Job from the Bible. “Job is saying to God, ‘Why do bad things happen to good people?’ And God is answering very, very biblically: ‘Who the fuck are you to ask me a question?’” he says, laughing.
As for Dr. Frankenstein, Isaac’s version is cold and unforgiving, shaped by a brutal upbringing courtesy of his own father, played by Charles Dance. Del Toro explains, “The movie is trying to articulate that the father becomes his father to his son without realizing it.”
That toxic cycle explodes into tragedy, as the monster turns on his creator in a final confrontation that leads to bloodshed and a chilling journey into an icy wilderness.
Rounding out the all-star cast are Mia Goth, Felix Kammerer, Lars Mikkelsen, David Bradley, Christoph Waltz, Christian Convery, and Ralph Ineson.
Frankenstein is shaping up to be a visually stunning, emotionally resonant, and terrifying reimagining of one of horror’s most iconic stories. And if these new images are any indication, del Toro’s creature is going to haunt our nightmares.
The movie is expected to debut on Netflix later this fall.
