We are just four months away from the premiere of Guillermo del Toro’s Netflix movie Frankenstein, which will be coming to life on the streaming service in November 2025. While you wait, Vanity Fair ran a massive preview piece this morning with brand new images.
“We are just doing a beautiful mass. The church is not built by us, but we are delivering a great, passionate soul-searing sermon in that church,” Del Toro teases in his interview with Vanity Fair. “[Boris] Karloff looms eternal. Bernie [Wrightston] looms eternal. But we are not doing Karloff and we’re not doing Bernie, and we’re not doing Mary [Shelley].”
“But I’ll say this,” he continues. “Mary Shelley and Bernie Wrightson and Karloff are as important to me as my father and mother. They gave birth to who I am, period.”
Check out Vanity Fair’s new images from GDT’s Frankenstein below.
“This is, for me, the culmination of a journey that has occupied most of my life. I first read Mary Shelley‘s Frankenstein as a kid and saw Boris Karloff in what became for me an almost religious state. Monsters have become my personal belief system,” the Academy Award-winning filmmaker told the audience at Netflix’s recent Tudum event.
“There are strands of Frankenstein throughout my films — Cronos, Blade, Hellboy, big time on Pinocchio, and a long, long et cetera. Exploring the relationship between humanity and monsters, creator and creation, father and son, has consumed my stores again and again,” del Toro continued. “I wanted to make this film before even I had a camera, and I’ve been actively pursuing it now for over 25 years It has grown so close to me that now it’s biography.”
The film follows brilliant but egotistical scientist Victor Frankenstein, who brings a creature to life in a monstrous experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of both the creator and his tragic creation.
Oscar Isaac (Dune) stars in Del Toro’s movie as mad scientist Victor Frankenstein, Jacob Elordi (Saltburn) as Frankenstein’s monster, Mia Goth (MaXXXine) as Elizabeth Lavenza, and Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds) as Dr. Pretorius.
Felix Kammerer (All Quiet on the Western Front), Lars Mikkelsen (“Ahsoka”), David Bradley (Harry Potter), Christian Convery (“Sweet Tooth”), Ralph Ineson (The Witch), and Charles Dance (“Game of Thrones”) round out the cast.
Del Toro’s Frankenstein is rated “R” for “bloody violence and grisly images.”
