{"id":94899,"date":"2025-09-30T14:49:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T14:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/94899\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T14:49:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T14:49:08","slug":"finally-an-official-look-at-guillermo-del-toros-frankenstein-monster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/94899\/","title":{"rendered":"Finally, an Official Look at Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Frankenstein’ Monster"},"content":{"rendered":"

The day is finally here.<\/a> After months of teasing, Netflix just released the first official look at Frankenstein\u2019s monster from the upcoming Guillermo del Toro film\u2026<\/a> and he\u2019s kind of beautiful<\/a>?<\/p>\n

Oh, he\u2019s hideous, of course. After all, he was created by putting together the remains of several dead bodies. But, thanks in large part to being portrayed by Jacob Elordi,<\/a> Frankenstein\u2019s monster has a less gruesome and more measured look than many are probably expecting. Here\u2019s the full image:<\/p>\n

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Though this is our first official image of the character, del Toro has previously explained some of the decisions that went into crafting the monster.<\/p>\n

\u201cEver since I started drawing the creature in the late \u201970s and early \u201980s, I knew I didn\u2019t want symmetric scars and I didn\u2019t want sutures or clamps,\u201d del Toro said a few weeks back<\/a>. \u201cWhat I thought was very interesting was to make him like a jigsaw puzzle. I wanted him to look beautiful, like a newborn thing, because a lot of times, Frankenstein steps into the frame and he looks like an accident victim. But Victor is as much an artist as he is a surgeon, so the cuts had to make aesthetic sense. I always thought about him as made of alabaster. I never understood something about the other versions: why does Victor use so many pieces from so many bodies? Why doesn\u2019t he just resurrect a guy who had a heart attack? And the answer for me was, what if the bodies come from a battlefield? Then he needs to find a way to bring the corpses together in a harmonious way.\u201d<\/p>\n

So, do we think he\u2019s succeeded? The look is certainly a very del Toro choice, one that will make the creature more sympathetic in the film. Whether or not that will work in context, we still have to wait a few weeks\u2014but before that, we\u2019re getting a new trailer tomorrow, October 1, to kick off spooky season in style.<\/p>\n

Co-starring Mia Goth, Felix Kammerer, David Bradley, Lars Mikkelsen, Christian Convery, with Charles Dance and Christoph Waltz, Frankenstein comes to select theaters on October 17 and Netflix on November 7.<\/p>\n

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Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel<\/a>, Star Wars<\/a>, and Star Trek<\/a> releases, what\u2019s next for the DC Universe on film and TV<\/a>, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The day is finally here. After months of teasing, Netflix just released the first official look at Frankenstein\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94900,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[18,117,11489,19187,19,17,11490,327],"class_list":{"0":"post-94899","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-frankenstein","11":"tag-guillermo-del-toro","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-jacob-elordi","15":"tag-movies"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}