Netflix released the teaser trailer for Guillermo del Toro’s highly anticipated adaptation of Mary Shelley‘s Frankenstein at their Tudum event.
“This is, for me, the culmination of a journey that has occupied most of my life. I first read Mary Shelley‘s Frankenstein as a kid and saw Boris Karloff in what became for me an almost religious state. Monsters have become my personal belief system,” the Academy Award-winning filmmaker told the audience tonight at Tudum. “There are strands of Frankenstein throughout my films — Cronos, Blade, Hellboy, big time on Pinocchio, and a long, long et cetera. Exploring the relationship between humanity and monsters, creator and creation, father and son, has consumed my stores again and again. I wanted to make this film before even I had a camera, and I’ve been actively pursuing it now for over 25 years. It has grown so close to me that now it’s biography. And tonight, here, finally, we can share it with you.”
The movie tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant but self-absorbed scientist. In a monstrous experiment, he animates a creature—a deed that leads to the destruction of both its maker and the tragic being itself.
The film features Oscar Isaac (Dune) in the role of the mad scientist Victor Frankenstein, Jacob Elordi (Saltburn) as Frankenstein’s monster, Mia Goth (MaXXXine) as Elizabeth Lavenza, and Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds) as Dr. Pretorius.
The cast also includes by Felix Kammerer (“All Quiet on the Western Front”), Lars Mikkelsen (“Ahsoka”), David Bradley (Harry Potter), Christian Convery (“Sweet Tooth”), Ralph Ineson (The Witch), and Charles Dance (“Game of Thrones”).
Frankenstein hits Netflix in November.