IT’S BEEN A LONG TIME COMING
Del Toro has been trying to make a Frankenstein film happen for years. The Mexican fabulist and lifelong Frankenstein superfan first struck a deal to adapt Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s Promethean tale with Universal back in 2008. Then, after ultimately swerving that ‘Dark Universe’-shaped bullet, del Toro resurrected the project in 2013 with Benedict Cumberbatch mooted to star. Now, a decade later, Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein is finally heading to Netflix. The cast assembled in late January in Toronto, putting out a group photo from a restaurant. IT’S ALIIIIIVE!!!
IT WON’T BE LIKE BRANAGH’S FRANKENSTEIN
For starters, del Toro publicly promised back in 2008 that, “Compared to Kenneth Branagh, I will not appear shirtless in the movie!” And, though plot details for this new adaptation remain shrouded in secrecy, the filmmaker’s subversive spin on Creature From The Black Lagoon with 2017’s The Shape Of Water suggests that he will take a more, err, novel approach than Branagh here.