‘It’s the movie that I’ve been in training for 30 years to do,’ says del Toro of his new film starring Oscar Isaac as Victor Frankenstein
On the first day of shooting Frankenstein, Mexican-born filmmaker Guillermo del Toro held up a drawing of the creature he had made when he was a teenager.
“He said, ‘This is like Jesus to me,’” recalls Oscar Isaac, who plays Victor Frankenstein.
For del Toro, Mary Shelley’s 1818 gothic novel and the 1931 film starring Boris Karloff are his personal surtexts, the origin of a lifelong affection for the monsters he has breathed into life throughout his career ever since.
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