Netflix has revealed the first image of Oscar Isaac in Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein, which will be released in November 2025.
In the image, Victor Frankenstein (Isaac) holds a mysterious vial as he stands before a crowd. Frankenstein is the mad scientist who successfully brings life back from the dead, resulting in a monstrous creature. Jacob Elordi will play Frankenstein’s creature.
Who is involved in Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein?
Frankenstein’s cast includes Mia Goth, Felix Kammerer, Lars Mikkelsen, David Bradley, Christian Convery, Charles Dance, and Christoph Waltz.
Del Toro writes and directs Frankenstein, based on Mary Shelley’s groundbreaking 1818 novel, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. Del Toro, Gary Ungar, and J. Miles Dale will produce.
Netflix’s synopsis reads: “Oscar-winning director Guillermo del Toro adapts Mary Shelley’s classic tale of 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.”
Del Toro has often cited Shelley and her writing as a huge inspiration for his career. Frankenstein is a movie del Toro has wanted to make for over a decade.
“The most important figure from English legacy is, incredibly, for me, a teenager by the name of Mary Shelley, and she has remained a figure as important in my life as if she were family,” del Toro said after winning the BAFTA for The Shape of Water. “And so many times when I want to give up, when I think about giving up, when people tell me that dreaming of the movies and the stories I dream are impossible, I think of her.”
Frankenstein is del Toro’s latest project at Netflix. The Mexican filmmaker directed Pinocchio for the streamer in 2022. The stop-motion movie about the wooden puppet who comes to life won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. 2022 also marked the release of Cabinet of Curiosities, del Toro’s horror anthology series that premiered on Netflix for Halloween.
