Frankenstein Is Brought To Life As The Official Trailer For Guillermo Del Toro’s Adaptation Breaks Free From The Netflix Castle
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Oscar Issac, Jacob Elordi, Mia Goth and Christoph Waltz lead the cast in Guillermo del Toro’s adaptation of Frankenstein. See the official trailer here.
On November 7th, Netflix will release Guillermo del Toro’s adaptation of the classic Gothic horror novel Frankenstein. This comes after the film has opened in selected cinemas on October 17th. The legend comes to life with a cast led by Oscar Isaac, Jacob Elordi, Mia Goth, and Christoph Waltz. Following the release of the new poster, the official trailer for the film has been unveiled.
“Some of what I will tell you is fact,” Oscar Isaac intoned in the opening moments of the first teaser trailer for Academy Award winner Guillermo del Toro’s highly anticipated Frankenstein adaptation, which premiered on May 31 at Netflix Tudum 2025: The Live Event. “Some is not. But it is all true.” The truth of this particular tale is in the eye of the beholder — whether that’s the eye of Victor Frankenstein (Isaac), or the misbegotten creature (Jacob Elordi) he’s created.
GUILLERMO DEL TORO
“This has been, for me, the culmination of a journey that has occupied most of my life,” del Toro told the crowd during the live event. “I first read Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein as a kid and saw [star of the 1931 adaptation] Boris Karloff in, what became for me, an almost religious state. Monsters have become my personal belief system.”
Del Toro may have been dreaming of Mary Shelley’s classic monster since childhood. But it took him decades to finally adapt the novel in earnest. In the interim, the iconography of the beloved tale seeped into the rest of del Toro’s filmography. Think of the lightning-infused birth of Pinocchio in his 2022 Oscar-winning Pinocchio. Or the wounded humanity of Ron Perlman’s monstrous Hellboy.
“Exploring the relationship between humanity and monsters, creator and creation, father and son has consumed my stories again and again,” he said on stage at Tudum 2025. “I wanted to make this film before even I had a camera, and I’ve been actively pursuing it now for 25 years.”
OSCAR ISSAC
For Isaac, playing the part of Victor Frankenstein has been
“the experience of a lifetime. The passion, the love, and dedication we’ve all put into this movie is reflected in every frame,” said the actor during the live event. “This film stands on the shoulders of every creature feature, but it is a dark and sumptuous emotional drama — a character piece sprung from the pages of Mary Shelley’s classic novel.”
MIA GOTH
Mia Goth, who plays Elizabeth Lavenza, Victor’s fiancée, “couldn’t wait to dive in” when she heard del Toro was adapting the classic novel.
“I love material like this, and it all started with the book,” she said.
JACOB ELORDI
Elordi also praised the director.
“Guillermo is a real-life genius, and I am immensely grateful to be in the film and really proud of the work that we all put into it,” he said.
THE PREMISE
Oscar-winning director Guillermo del Toro adapts Mary Shelley’s classic tale of 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.
CREDITS
DIRECTOR: Guillermo del Toro
SCREENPLAY BY: Guillermo del Toro
BASED ON: ‘Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.’ by Mary Shelley
PRODUCERS: Guillermo del Toro, J. Miles Dale, Scott Stuber
CAST: Oscar Isaac, Jacob Elordi, Mia Goth, Felix Kammerer, David Bradley, Lars Mikkelsen, Christian Convery, with Charles Dance, and Christoph Waltz
IMAGES
Frankenstein opens in selected cinemas on October 17th, and arrives on Netflix on November 7th.
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