#del toro's Frankenstein

[anevilmanstit]

WHEN I SAY I ALMOST JUMPED

Seeing this feels like Christmas and my Birthday in one. I can't wait for this movie to do the book justice. I wanna see Dr Frankenstein as the hot and ambitious 20y/o bitch he is. And I hope they his monster handsome as well, because I remember reading the passage that described him in English class and thinking "Wow ok he sounds like one attractive mf" and then the narrator revealed it's the "monster" like??? But no, frfr I am going to be so annoying when this comes out :')

[fourorfivemovements]

Oscar Isaac as Victor Frankenstein (x)

[netflix]

You're not ready for what's next on Netflix

[collinsportmaine]

From Guillermo del Toro’s production of Frankenstein for Netflix. That’s Oscar Issac as Victor Frankenstein (with his back to the camera). Jacob Elordi (Saltburn) plays the near naked hunk of a monster at the left.

[asturlavi]

"i ought to be thy adam, but i am rather the fallen angel"

[faretheeoscar]

IT'S HAPPENING

[stardestroyerss]

First look at Oscar Isaac as Dr. Frankenstein in Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Frankenstein’ 💥💥💥

Releasing in November on Netflix.

[artfulusername]

The following picture of Oscar Isaac as Dr. Frankenstein in Guillermo del Toro's upcoming Frankenstein adaptation was released this morning.

You're welcome.

(Source: Film Crave on Bluesky.)

[melomancy]

the atrocious wuthering heights casting…the tragic choice of making basil and dorian siblings…guillermo del toro’s frankenstein is the last hope for a good gothic novel film adaptation

[monstrousdesirestudy]

Not one, but TWO (2) different movie announcements today from my favorite monster fucker directors!!!

[fanofspooky]

Scream King - Dan Stevens

[curatorofthisdigitalmorass]

FRANKENSTEIN (2025)

[fourorfivemovements]

First look at Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein (x)

[orangechickenpillow]

I am betting so much on this movie you don't understand

[see-arcane]

The Book: Victor is 20

The casting: 45 year old man

They keep aging Victor up to Appropriate Dad-like Age rather than allowing him to be the unhealthy fainting fever-brained college kid barely out of puberty because

1) Easier paternal comparison with the Creature and

2) It's a lot harder to be aghast at his abandoning !!1! of said Creature and definitely for real responsibility for all the murdering he does when you actually highlight his youth and the unhealed death trauma that spurred him, a 'man' barely past being a boy, to chase the concept of a better human being to spite death

Like, imagine seeing Victor Frankenstein standing beside the Creature as they appear in the book.

A young and stunned David beholding the Goliath he made, misplaced, and has met again only after said Goliath took a turn for the monstrous. A talented boy who invented a wretched man. There's so much more meat to be had with that contrast than with 40-year-old Victor VS Generic Man-Monster in His Prime Creature.

This isn't just a warped parable about parenthood and the way society can form its own monsters. It's about a desperate young man, distraught at the inability to prevent grief and loss, who throws everything into making the 'ideal' impervious improved human. He wanted to make something better than himself and frail humanity, but fucked up colossally. And isn't that something we never see in Frankenfilms!

Imagine a movie that reminds us that Victor wasn't just chasing pure hubris in cackling mad scientist fashion. He wanted to cure death itself so no one would hurt from loss as he did (and never moved past). A child building a solid imaginary friend to magically fix the problem of his pain as masked by scientific cause. The tragedy in it being that the very thing he made to repel death was the figure who would go on to murder all the loved ones he had left in poorly aimed vengeance.

I don't doubt that Oscar Isaac will do well in his role, however del Toro steers him. I'm sure I'll enjoy it. But I don't really need another middle-aged Victor Frankenstein.

I want to see the actual haggard and wretched boy, limping through his final days of life in an arctic waste. A child crushed by what amounted to an elaborate toy he made in lieu of processing his mother's death.

But I won't hold my breath for it.