It’s alive! The first trailer for Oscar-winner Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein has finally arrived, courtesy of Netflix’s TUDUM event, and it’s everything we could have hoped for from the director behind The Shape of Water and Pan’s Labyrinth.
In addition to directing, del Toro also wrote Frankenstein, adapting from Shelley’s novel, and cast a mix of rising and already massive stars to fill out his cast. Alongside Isaac, the film features Jacob Elordi as the Monster, as well as Mia Goth, Felix Kammerer, Lars Mikkelsen, David Bradley, Charles Dance, and Christoph Waltz. We know that the film will arrive in theaters at some point, per del Toro himself, but while info on that is still pending, Frankenstein will premiere on Netflix this November.
This, of course, isn’t the first time a filmmaker has attempted to tackle Shelley’s seminal story of death and rebirth. The first came all the way back in 1910 as a one-reeler silent film from Edison Studios, but most are familiar with James Whale’s 1931 take on the story, which popularized the Creature as a hulking brute with bolts in its neck. Hammer and other production companies took to making many, many (many) versions of the story throughout the twentieth century, and there have also been more modern interpretations, including Kenneth Branagh’s Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Maggie Gyllenhaal’s upcoming The Bride!.
This one, however, isn’t a horror film — at least not according to del Toro. “It’s an emotional story for me,” he said of the movie at Cannes Film Festival. “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. What I can say is, for me, it’s an incredibly emotional movie.”
Frankenstein arrives on Netflix in November. Check out the new trailer below.
