{"id":148392,"date":"2025-06-01T02:58:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T02:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/148392\/"},"modified":"2025-06-01T02:58:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T02:58:09","slug":"frankenstein-trailer-brings-jacob-elordi-to-monstrous-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/148392\/","title":{"rendered":"Frankenstein Trailer Brings Jacob Elordi to Monstrous Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tMaestro of monsters <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/guillermo-del-toro\/\" id=\"auto-tag_guillermo-del-toro_1\" data-tag=\"guillermo-del-toro\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Guillermo del Toro<\/a> is tackling one of the classics of the creature genre with the first trailer for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/jacob-elordi-replacing-andrew-garfield-guillermo-del-toro-frankenstein-1235781338\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Frankenstein<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe first look at the adaptation of Mary Shelley\u2019s classic novel came during <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/tudum\/\" id=\"auto-tag_tudum_1\" data-tag=\"tudum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tudum<\/a>, the Netflix event in which the streaming service shows off its upcoming projects.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe new take on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/frankenstein\/\" id=\"auto-tag_frankenstein_1\" data-tag=\"frankenstein\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Frankenstein<\/a> stars Oscar Isaac as Victor Frankenstein and Jacob Elordi as Frankenstein\u2019s monster. The feature also stars Mia Goth, Felix Kammerer, Lars Mikkelsen, David Bradley, Christian Convery, Charles Dance and Christoph Waltz.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tDel Toro has a long history of turning monsters into prestige fair. 2006\u2019s Pan\u2019s Labyrinth earned three Oscars, while 2017\u2019s The Shape of Water was an awards juggernaut, taking home four Academy Awards, including best picture and best director. With Frankenstein, he continues a relationship with Netflix that includes Pinocchio, which landed a best animated feature Oscar in 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe filmmaker has long wanted to make a Frankenstein feature, and gave a nod to Shelly in his 2018 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.netflix.com\/tudum\/articles\/frankenstein-guillermo-del-toro-release-date-cast-photos\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">acceptance speech<\/a> for a BAFTA for best director for Shape of Water.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cThe most important figure from English legacy is,\u00a0incredibly, for me, a teenager by the name of Mary\u00a0Shelley, and she has remained a figure as important in\u00a0my life as if she were\u00a0family,\u201d del Toro said. \u201cAnd so many times when\u00a0I want to give up, when I think about giving up, when\u00a0people tell me that\u00a0dreaming of the movies and the stories\u00a0I dream are impossible, I think of her.\u201d<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Maestro of monsters Guillermo del Toro is tackling one of the classics of the creature genre with the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148393,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3935],"tags":[77,38478,59868,3943,63577,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-148392","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-frankenstein","10":"tag-guillermo-del-toro","11":"tag-movies","12":"tag-tudum","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114605870459070414","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}