Overview

• The film has completed its Venice–Telluride–TIFF run and will open in select theaters on October 17 before a global Netflix debut on November 7.
• Del Toro says the story centers on fathers and sons, pain, regret and forgiveness, drawing on conversations about his own father's 1998 kidnapping.
• Oscar Isaac portrays Victor Frankenstein with a “rock star” energy, approaching the lab like a concert stage inspired by late ’60s and ’70s icons.
• Jacob Elordi’s Creature is described by del Toro as “staggeringly beautiful,” with pale, translucent, multi‑hued skin and artful scars realized through elaborate prosthetics.
• At TIFF, del Toro announced he is writing the “very violent” crime thriller Fury to reunite with Isaac and is preparing a non‑kids, epic stop‑motion adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant.