It’s a real passion project for Oscar winner Guillermo del Toro (“The Shape of Water”): the filmmaker, who has a penchant for all things dark, has wanted to make his own project for more than a decade. own version of the horror classic”Frankenstein“ put in order. The project has finally been in the works for a while and already has a date set for the start of filming: it should begin in February 2024.
Some big-name actors are already on board: Marvel stars Oscar Isaac (“Moon Knight”) and Andrew Garfield (“Spider-Man: No Way Home”), as well as horror shooter Mia Goth, who recently made genre contributions like “X” and “Pearl” caused a sensation. And as del Toro himself has now confirmed, there is another big name on the cast list of ‘Frankenstein’: James Bond villain Christoph Waltz.
Del Toro is now “crazy enough” for “Frankenstein”
Guillermo del Toro recently collaborated with Waltz on his warm-hearted Netflix fantasy film “Pinocchio,” which for the author of this article is one of the best films of 2022 and also tops the joint annual rankings of FILMSTARTS and Filmpilot. During a special screening on the film’s site, del Toro revealed that Waltz is also in “Frankenstein.” :
The start of filming depends on the end of the strike
Waltz may not have joined the cast recently, but probably before the actors’ union strike began, but his name had not yet been mentioned in connection with the project. Whether the strike has ended by then (the union and the studios are currently renegotiating) will of course also depend on whether filming of “Frankenstein” can begin as planned in February 2024.
Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’, about the scientist of the same name who brings an artificial human to life from corpse parts, is one of the great classics of horror literature and has been adapted into films several times.
It is not yet known exactly how del Toro will carry out the story, but the master director has stated several times in the past that he does not want to simply make a one-on-one adaptation. On the contrary, monster fan del Toro, who also wrote the script for his ‘Frankenstein’, floats. a kind of adventure story for. Whether this approach is still relevant remains to be seen.