Last Updated on February 3, 2025 by Angel Melanson
It’s alive! Netflix has finally given us a bit more information on their upcoming adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, directed by Oscar-winning horror filmmaker Guillermo del Toro. As a part of their 2025 film slate announcement, they’ve released a new image from the film featuring star Oscar Isaac in all his mad scientist glory.
The new image doesn’t show off much more than Isaac with what I can only refer to as spectacular hair, gesturing madly to a crowd, presumably about his newfound theory on raising the dead. Little does he know that it will all go wrong, turning his life upside down and upending everything he knows about life, death, and humanity.
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, Netflix also revealed that Frankenstein will premiere on Netflix sometime 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!.
Frankenstein arrives on Netflix in November. Check out the new image below.
Photo Credit: Ken Woroner / Netflix
