Guillermo Del Toro On His Lifelong Quest To Create ‘Frankenstein’
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Guillermo del Toro and Jacob Elordi on the set of “Frankenstein.” Netflix/Ken Woroner While Frankenstein filmmaker Guillermo del Toro has directed several beloved movies over his three decades-plus in the business — from Pan’s Labyrinth, Hellboy and its sequel and Pacific Rim, to Crimson Peak, The Shape of Water and Nightmare Alley — perhaps nothing has been more satisfying to the three-time Oscar winner than his work in the past three years. In 2022, del Toro, along with fellow director Mark Gustafson, finally realized his lifelong vision as a stop-motion filmmaker with the Best Animated Feature Oscar winner Pinocchio. Now, on Friday, del Toro — a proud “Monster Kid” who grew up watching Universal Studios monster movies — gets to present to audiences another story he’s been waiting his whole career to tell with his big-screen adaptation of Mary Shelley’s classic novel Frankenstein. ForbesNew ‘Frankenstein’ Website Reveals Which Theaters Are Playing FilmBy Tim Lammers Netflix — the studio behind del Toro’s Pinocchio — released Frankenstein in New York and Los Angeles last week before it expands to theaters nationwide on Friday. Frankenstein will next debut on Netflix on Friday, Nov. 7. While at first blush it would appear that the stories of Pinocchio and Frankenstein couldn’t be any further apart, ultimately, they are very similar because they’re stories about fathers and sons, del Toro explained in a recent Zoom conversation. “They’re kind of the same myth. I’ve always said, ‘I’m going to shoot Pinocchio like Frankenstein and Frankenstein like Pinocchio.’ My version of Frankenstein has elements of fairy tales, and my Pinocchio has some elements of horror, so I think they are very related,” del Toro said. “They’re ultimately about different fathers sending an inadequate, strange kid into the world, which every misfit and every Monster Kid can relate to.…
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