Oscar Isaac's FRANKENSTEIN Gives Life To Jacob Elordi's Monster In First Trailer For Del Toro's Adaptation

Oscar Isaac's FRANKENSTEIN Gives Life To Jacob Elordi's Monster In First Trailer For Del Toro's Adaptation

Netflix has released the first trailer for Guillermo del Toro's adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, and it features our first glimpse of Jacob Elordi's Monster...

By MarkCassidy - Jun 01, 2025 07:06 PM EST
Filed Under: Frankenstein

After a 17-year journey to the screen, Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein arrives this November, and we finally have our first look at some footage.

Netflix unveiled the first trailer for the fan-favorite filmmaker's adaptation of Mary Shelley's seminal novel during the streamer's annual Tudum event, and, as expected, it looks like this is going to be an extremely faithful retelling of the classic tale.

The teaser begins with Oscar Isaac's Victor Frankenstein recounting his story to Captain Robert Walton, who encounters the scientist, now mad with grief and fuelled by vengeance, during an expedition to the North Pole. From there, we see shots of Frankenstein conducting the fateful experiment that gives life to his terrifying creation.

As for Jacob Elordi's Creature, there are only a couple of obscured glimpses, but we do get to see him lay waste to a mob while bellowing his "father's" name.

It’s a movie I have been wanting to do for 50 years since I saw the first Frankenstein," Del Toro said back when the project was first confirmed. "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. It’s Oscar Isaac, Andrew Garfield, Christoph Waltz, Mia Goth, and we’re working on it.”

Andrew Garfield (The Amazing Spider-Man) was originally cast as the Monster, but was forced to drop out due to a scheduling conflict, with Elordi stepping in to replace him.

Mia Goth will play Victor's fiancé, Elizabeth, who may also become the Monster's Bride, depending on which route Del Toro - who also penned the script - decides to take the story.

Felix Kammerer (All Quiet on the Western Front), Lars Mikkelsen (The Witcher), David Bradley (Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio) and Christian Convery (Sweet Tooth) also star.

First published in 1818, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus has been adapted numerous times for the stage and screen, but there have been very few fully faithful takes on the story (the creature's appearance in the novel, for example, has never been accurately depicted).

Del Toro expressed his admiration for Shelley during his 2018 BAFTA acceptance speech for best director for The Shape of Water.

“The most important figure from English legacy is, incredibly, for me, a teenager by the name of Mary Shelley, and she has remained a figure as important in my life as if she were family,” del Toro said. “And so many times when I want to give up, when I think about giving up, when people tell me that dreaming of the movies and the stories I dream are impossible, I think of her.”

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WhatIfRickJames
WhatIfRickJames - 6/1/2025, 7:10 PM
Looks really good, like reaaaallllyyy good
MakeAmericaGrea
MakeAmericaGrea - 6/1/2025, 9:38 PM
Guillermo Del Toro is all in with the wokeness, right?

The Shape of Water is fairly woke, right?

Do you reckon Guillermo was writing Frankenstein like

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ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 6/2/2025, 3:55 AM
@MakeAmericaGrea - It's 2025. Post Civil Rights movement. Post Women's lib. Most things and most people are woke.
Malatrova15
Malatrova15 - 6/1/2025, 7:11 PM
Meh...Kenneth Brannagh movie did it already, if anything this Will be More action focused because Del Toro ITS not a true horror director
RolandD
RolandD - 6/1/2025, 7:17 PM
@Malatrova15 - He’s said that he was not making a horror movie.
Malatrova15
Malatrova15 - 6/1/2025, 7:31 PM
@RolandD - he said a lot of things....today Is elección day in México AND he Is not here doing His duty whit democracy ...as everyone whit a grain of success he escaped forever from a country he says he loves
JohnCastillo
JohnCastillo - 6/1/2025, 7:52 PM
@Malatrova15 - You know you don’t have to be in the country to vote.. I live in London but I can vote in the Colombian elections from the Colombian embassy… so 🤷🏻‍♂️
Malatrova15
Malatrova15 - 6/1/2025, 8:34 PM
@JohnCastillo - AND yet he refuses to do so ,.not welcome in México anymore ..he Is Again our presidenta
SuperiorHeckler
SuperiorHeckler - 6/1/2025, 8:41 PM
@Malatrova15 - Bobby De Niro (still a formidable actor at the time) may very well have been one of the great mis-castings in recent memory for the role of the Monster. 🤨 (And I'm not even going to close that sentence with a prerequisite "IMO" because I just stated fact!)
Malatrova15
Malatrova15 - 6/1/2025, 9:21 PM
@SuperiorHeckler - he still a Great actor ...Alto Knights acting quality ITS as cool as Harrison Ford in Brave NEW World
ModHaterSLADE
ModHaterSLADE - 6/1/2025, 7:13 PM
Man this looks awesome. Guillermo del Toro's projects kill it with the visual design.
Malatrova15
Malatrova15 - 6/1/2025, 7:14 PM
@ModHaterSLADE - sadly not always whit the story
MakeAmericaGrea
MakeAmericaGrea - 6/1/2025, 9:41 PM
Don't watch this on Netflix.

Watch:

Frankenstein 1931

Bride of Frankenstein 1935

The Bride 1985

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein with Robert De Niro.
Rpendo
Rpendo - 6/1/2025, 10:21 PM
@MakeAmericaGrea - everyone here will watch what they want to watch, thanks.

Feel free to just ho away forever.
MisterDoctor217
MisterDoctor217 - 6/1/2025, 7:18 PM
Looks freaking good!!

The visuals , the costumes , the shots , the acting.

The monster. Top notch stuff.

I hope the movie overall delivers.
DarthOmega
DarthOmega - 6/1/2025, 7:36 PM
Looks [frick]ing phenomenal
Nolanite
Nolanite - 6/1/2025, 7:51 PM
I'm sold!

Definitely looks amazaballs!

Nolanite out
MosquitoFarmer
MosquitoFarmer - 6/1/2025, 8:01 PM
Not really a book reader much, but having read Mary Shelley's Frankenstein in college I was pleasantly and thoroughly surprised how much I enjoyed it. Great read. Don't know though how faithfully accurate this looks but it looks good. I'm hesitant about Del Toro's creature design; curious if it will have yellow-ish skin.
Slotherin
Slotherin - 6/1/2025, 9:19 PM
@MosquitoFarmer - I think I read something about red eyes somewhere so sadly we won't be getting those yellow eyes. I think this will take liberties for sure..
That's one of my favorite novels.
Huskers
Huskers - 6/1/2025, 8:01 PM
This looks amazing! Always loved the classic monster tales! Never understood why they don’t release these in time for Halloween, always seemed like a no brainer tie in to me. Did the same thing with Nosferatu last year.
Slotherin
Slotherin - 6/1/2025, 9:21 PM
@Huskers - I get them not wanting competition but Wolf Man, Nosferatu and this should all have come out for Halloween season
MakeAmericaGrea
MakeAmericaGrea - 6/1/2025, 9:52 PM
@Huskers -

Yeah, releasing spooky flicks in November is the worst.

Maybe they want to avoid competition with thousands of other spooky flicks being watched in September and October?
bobevanz
bobevanz - 6/1/2025, 10:39 PM
@MakeAmericaGrea - awards season and if Netflix bends the knee, they'll release it over Thanksgiving to make more money than if it came out in October. You know nothing lol just hate and rage
RolandD
RolandD - 6/1/2025, 8:02 PM
I have to agree with many here. That looks incredibly good.
DocSpock
DocSpock - 6/1/2025, 8:02 PM

Looks great. Fingers crossed because Del Toro is VERY hit and miss. He has a few very good ones, and some lousy ones.

His disciples are like SnyderHeads, eternally crowing his divinity and that all his movies are masterpieces.

They are very wrong. And the Pacific Rim movies are dreck.



bobevanz
bobevanz - 6/1/2025, 10:40 PM
@DocSpock - he only made the first Pacific Rim dork. If that's his worst movie, then his amazing movies outweigh the fan service
DocSpock
DocSpock - 6/2/2025, 12:18 AM
@bobevanz -

You're a Del Toro worshipper drone. Got it. No sense discussing him with you.
DocSpock
DocSpock - 6/2/2025, 12:18 AM
@bobevanz -

And why do you say Pacific Rim is his worst movie?
Lucasberg
Lucasberg - 6/2/2025, 1:33 AM
@DocSpock - 100 agree again. Del Toro is unreliable but sometimes great.
Waifuslayer2
Waifuslayer2 - 6/2/2025, 1:37 AM
@DocSpock - at this point I'd take Snyder over Del Toro. Crimson Peak and Shape of Water were inexcusabley awful.

Pacific Rim is mid af, so is Mimic. He'll boy 1&2 are half decent but feel so claustrophobic to me. Pans Labyrinth has the same issue. It's sets just feel so tiny. Blade 2 is probably my favorite of his just because it's unashamedly fun and stupid and Snipes is great in it.

You have to go all the way back to Chronos and The Devils Backbone to find his genuinely good films.
DocSpock
DocSpock - 6/2/2025, 9:31 AM
@Waifuslayer2 -

True. Pacific Rim and Way of Water just aren't the masterpieces the ToroHeads think they are.
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 6/1/2025, 8:04 PM
Looks good imo!!.

Obviously it’s visually pretty which is what I expected from Del Toro but lines such as “by seeking life , I created death” into the music drop (which sounds cool) when we get the title is the stuff that hits for me.

Anyway , can’t wait to see this!!.
Monkeyballs2
Monkeyballs2 - 6/1/2025, 8:10 PM
Looks excellent.

I give it 3 or 4 more comments before the incels and maga fucktards show up and complain that Frankenstein isn’t played by a blonde German.
Reginator
Reginator - 6/1/2025, 8:13 PM
@Monkeyballs2 - not all Germans are blonde.
Monkeyballs2
Monkeyballs2 - 6/1/2025, 8:46 PM
@Reginator - no shit
SirReginald
SirReginald - 6/2/2025, 1:41 AM
@Reginator - This is a jewish Dr Frankenstein. Golem metaphor.
Reginator
Reginator - 6/1/2025, 8:13 PM
Looks good!
THEKENDOMAN
THEKENDOMAN - 6/1/2025, 8:18 PM
Del Toro is one of the most fascinating movie directors I have ever [frick]ing met.

If my memory serves me well, I met him in Barcelona some years back in a bar just off Las Ramblas, in an area called Calle Royale.

The [frick]ing way this man talks about film and his process is [frick]ing quite special, and when you watch his work, it's equal to his energy when he speaks, and all you have to do is [frick]ing see it visually.

This will be a masterpiece based on the Frankenstein monster story, and with a cast that includes Oscar Issacs and Christopher Waltz, what can [frick]ing go wrong?

Looking [frick]ing forward to this.

For [frick]s sake
JohnBergman85
JohnBergman85 - 6/2/2025, 6:03 AM
@THEKENDOMAN - Please elaborate, would be cool to meet the dude.
THEKENDOMAN
THEKENDOMAN - 6/2/2025, 10:28 AM
@JohnBergman85 - Matey, you gonna make me go [frick]ing poetic.

But mother[frick]ing yes, mate, I met him totally by [frick]ing chance. I was at this gig in Barcelona; I can’t even [frick]ing remember who was headlining at first, just tagging along with a friend who knew one of the [frick]ing musicians. It turns out del Toro knows the mother[frick]er too, and he was just there, hanging out, totally [frick]ing low-key. My [frick]ing friend introduced us, and next thing I know, we’re [frick]ing film-talking.

Listening to him talk about movies is like climbing this [frick]ing winding, gothic staircase. Every [frick]ing step you take, he’s opening a secret door to some [frick]ing bizarre, beautiful world you didn’t even know [frick]ing existed. He jumps from old monster flicks to obscure folklore to [frick]ing philosophical themes and somehow makes it all feel like a single, [frick]ing glowing thread. You’re just holding on, trying to keep up while he pours out this passion that’s equal parts scholar, fanboy, and [frick]ing mad scientist.

It wasn’t even a long chat, but the energy and sheer joy he brings when talking about storytelling it [frick]ing sticks with you.

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