Shooting on Guillermo del Toro’s “Frankenstein” kicked off back in January 25, and finally wrapped production in October. That’s nine months of shooting, with barely a break in between.
Here’s now our first look at “Frankenstein,” a passion project of del Toro’s, that he’s been dreaming up since childhood. We have Netflix to thank for financing the film as the project has been in and out of development for a few decades now. All signs are pointing towards a Venice Film Festival world premiere and fall 2025 release date.
“The fact is I’ve been dreaming of doing a ‘Frankenstein’ movie since I was a child,” Del Toro told ComingSoon back in 2008. Del Toro is known to have many collectibles of Boris Karloff as the monster and has been developing this project for over a decade. The closest he got to making the film was in 2018, but soon after Universal Pictures scrapped the entire thing.
Del Toro’s ‘Frankenstein’ will feature a talented batch of actors that includes the likes of Oscar Isaac, Jacob Elordi, Christoph Waltz, Mia Goth and Charles Dance. Dan Lausten is the DP, and this will be his fifth collaboration with del Toro, after “Mimic,” Crimson Peak,” “The Shape of Water,” and “Nightmare Alley.”