Overview
- The adaptation has been streaming on Netflix since Nov. 7, with Oscar Isaac as Victor Frankenstein and Jacob Elordi as the Creature alongside Mia Goth and Christoph Waltz.
- At the Gotham Awards, del Toro said reading Mary Shelley's novel helped him realize he "did not belong" and that his place was with "monsters and misfits."
- In a Marrakech Film Festival talk, he described a decades-long drive to make the film and said he sought an operatic tone informed by the Romantic poets.
- Discussing mortality and emotion, he told the audience he is "a big fan of death" and is "looking forward to it," offering the remarks as part of a broader reflection on his work.
- Early reactions praise the film’s visual artistry, Elordi’s performance and Alexandre Desplat’s score, while some viewers argue the personal reinterpretation strays from Shelley’s themes.