*Guillermo del Toros’ Frankenstein is alive!
The Netflix flick starring Oscar Isaac (Baron Victor Frankenstein) and Jacob Elordi (The Creature) drops today. The director spoke at a press conference about creating the creature.
Q: The Creature as portrayed by Jacob is a departure from previous cinematic portrayals of Frankenstein. how you envisioned the Creature and Victor in your version?
GDT: Mike Hill, who’s a makeup effects creator…There’s only one percent of makeup effects guys that can create a character. 99 percent can make a monster. One percent can make a character. And when you meet somebody with that talent, then it’s a triangulation. It’s Jacob and myself and him. And what you do with it is try to avoid the usual appearance like an accident victim. Like an ICU character that came out all patched. But this guy has been dreaming about that creation for decades. Nothing in this movie is eye candy. It’s all like protein. It’s nutritious and it tells you the story. [laugh] Victor, but yeah, well, the idea with Victor was, part of what was incredibly powerful of Oscar is how he naturally is like musical. You know? I mean, I don’t want to say that Latin men dance better, but we do. [laugh] Sorry.
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Synopsis
From Oscar®-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro comes the definitive retelling of Mary Shelley’s genre-defining novel of life and death — an epic drama about what it means to be human, to crave love, and seek understanding. Golden Globe-winner Oscar Isaac plays the brilliant but tortured scientist Victor Frankenstein, who embarks on an ego-driven quest to bring new life into this world, resulting in the Creature (BAFTA-nominee Jacob Elordi), whose very existence provokes questions about what it means to be a human and what it really means to be a monster.
This sprawling epic takes audiences from the remote reaches of the Arctic to the bloody battlefields of 19th-century Europe, as Frankenstein and his Creature go on their own search for meaning in a world that can seem quite mad. Also starring Mia Goth as the luminous Elizabeth and two-time Academy Award®-winner Christoph Waltz, Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein is a reminder of how, at heart, we are all creatures, lost and found.
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