Stunning First Trailer For Guillermo del Toro's FRANKENSTEIN — GeekTyrant
Del Toro prevously opened up about the film and what he is looking to do with it saying:
'Somebody asked me the other day, does it have really scary scenes? For the first time, I considered that. It's an emotional story for me. It's as personal as anything. I'm asking a question about being a father, being a son… I'm not doing a horror movie — ever. I'm not trying to do that.'
Del Toro's stories often center on creatures the world sees as monsters, and instead reveal something deeply empathetic and human within them.
Their approach leans into the heart of the story rather than the horror, a direction Del Toro's been circling for decades. He even traced his fascination with the creature back to a scene from Billy Wilder's The Seven Year Itch .
'The first time I thought I was going to avenge the creature was when Marilyn Monroe is coming out [of the movies] in The Seven Year Itch with Tom Ewell, and she says the creature just needed somebody to like him.
'I fell in love with Marilyn, and I fell in love with the creature in that scene at a very early age. And I thought, you know, all we have is people that look at people the wrong way. That's what we have in this world.'
The story follows 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.
It's explained that 'much of the film, including this laboratory scene, takes place within the remnants of once-great structures.'
Del Toro says: 'Gothic romance was born partially out of the fascination with ruins. Sometimes they're more beautiful than the building complete because it's the clash of creation and destruction.'
Del Toro previously said of the project, 'It's a movie I have been wanting to do for 50 years since I saw the first Frankenstein. I had an epiphany, and it's basically a movie that required a lot of growth and a lot of tools that I couldn't have done 10 years ago. Now I'm brave or crazy enough or something, and we're gonna tackle it.'
Frankenstein stars Jacob Elordi as the Monster, Oscar Isaac as Victor, Mia Goth ( MaXXXine, The Odyssey ) as Victor's fiancée, Elizabeth Lavenza; Christoph Waltz ( Inglorious Basterds, del Toro's Pinocchio ) as Dr. Septimus Pretorius, Victor's former professor who originated in Bride of Frankenstein ; Lars Mikkelsen ( The Witcher, Ahsoka ) as Captain Anderson, a seeming replacement for Captain Walton, leader of a voyage of discovery towards the northern pole; and Ralph Ineson ( Game of Thrones, The Fantastic Four: First Steps ) as Professor Kempre, who in the novel is a professor of natural philosophy described as 'an uncouth man, but deeply imbued in the secrets of his science.'
The movie is expected to debut on Netflix later this fall. Watch the trailer and tell us what you think!
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