Jacob Elordi has been cast as The Monster in Guillermo del Toro’s film adaptation of Frankenstein. Andrew Garfield was originally set to play The Monster, but he had to drop over over scheduling conflicts caused by the Hollywood strikes.
It was also announced that Felix Kammerer, Lars Mikkelsen, David Bradley, and Christian Convery have joined the film. The rest of the cast includes Oscar Isaac, who will play Victor Frankenstein; Mia Goth, who is rumored to play The Bride; and Christoph Waltz.
There’s a lot of hype surrounding Eldori right now over his recently released film Saltburn. The actor recently talked about turning down the opportunity to audition for James Gunn’s Superman: Legacy because it was “too dark.” However, I’m sure that Saltburn is a much darker film than Superman: Legacy will be, and even Del Toro’s Frankenstein is sure to be darker. So, I’m not so sure Eldori knows what he’s talking about. Anyway, the teen heart-throb is now playing Frankenstein’s monster.
Del Toro is writing, directing, and producing the film and when he first revealed he was finally doing the project he said: “I’m doing Frankenstein. We’re working on it. We start shooting in February, and it’s a movie I have been wanting to do for 50 years since I saw the first Frankenstein. I had an epiphany, and it’s basically a movie that required a lot of growth and a lot of tools that I couldn’t have done 10 years ago. Now I’m brave or crazy enough or something, and we’re gonna tackle it.”
The director previously shared his love for the property, but also explained that he does have a fear of making it: “Frankenstein to me is the pinnacle of everything, and part of me wants to do a version of it, part of me has for more than 25 years chickened out of making it. I dream I can make the greatest Frankenstein ever, but then if you make it, you’ve made it. Whether it’s great or not, it’s done. You cannot dream about it anymore. That’s the tragedy of a filmmaker. You can dream of something but once you’ve made it, you’ve made it. That’s it. You landed a 10 or you landed a 6.5 but you were at the Olympics already, and you were judged.”
The film’s producer, J. Miles Dale, also talked about the film and offered some additional insight into it. According to him, Del Toro is building his own monster universe. He explains: “At one time, he was going to do the Monster Universe with Universal — Frankenstein’s Bride, Creature from the Black Lagoon, Invisible Man, The Wolf Man — and he didn’t. We feel like Shape of Water was kind of a version of a creature. So now, here he is doing his own Monster Universe.”
Dale went on to say that it’s going to be a “deeply emotional” movie, and added: “In the last couple of films, certainly with Nightmare Alley and then with Pinocchio, we’ve dealt with the whole father-son relationship. And Guillermo and I both lost our fathers in the last few years. When you have a strong father figure, it’s a big part of our lives. This version of Frankenstein very much goes down that thematic road. So, I feel like this is the third film in Guillermo’s father trilogy. That’s exciting, and when you read the script, it’s very emotional and, of course, very iconic.”
The film is based on Mary Shelley’s novel, which follows Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant but egotistical scientist who brings a creature to life in a monstrous experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of both the creator and his tragic creation.
Source: Deadline
