Guillermo del Toro’s Dream Project Comes to Life: New “Frankenstein” Images Showcase Jacob Elordi’s Monster

By The Credits | July 29, 2025

Frankenstein is ready for his close-up.

Netflix has released nearly a dozen new images from Guillermo del Toro’s upcoming Frankenstein, which is slated to have its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival, followed by a global release on Netflix in November.

The new images include a look, at long last, at Jacob Elordi as the iconic monster, along with Oscar Isaac’s mad scientist, Viktor Frankenstein, and Mia Goth as his love interest, Elizabeth Lavenza.

We also get looks at Christoph Waltz as Harlander (a new character created for the film), Charles Dance as Leopold Frankenstein, Christian Convery as a young Viktor Frankenstein, and some stunning images of the incredible sets, courtesy of Del Toro’s longtime collaborator, production designer Tamara Deverell, and an image of Del Toro on set that’s looks a bit like a scene from his masterpiece, Pan’s Labyrinth. All in all, these images make it crystal clear why so many people are excited about seeing Del Toro’s version of this deathless tale.

We got our first glimpse of the visionary director’s remake of the iconic monster movie this past June, when the teaser bowed. Del Toro is perhaps more perfectly suited to enliven a fresh adaptation of Shelley’s deathless novel than any other living director—it’s an adaptation the writer/director has been thinking and dreaming about tackling for decades, and adapting Shelley’s work has long been one of his dream projects, along with adapting H.P. Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness, but when it came to Frankenstein, Del Toro could never seem to pull the lever on his own electric creativity. Until now. Speaking with Den of Geek in 2016, Del Toro explained that even though Shelley’s masterpiece has been adapted many times, no filmmaker has captured the crucial North Pole sequence, for example, and that, to him, was where he wanted to come in:

“To this day, nobody has made the book, but the book became my bible, because what Mary Shelley wrote was the quintessential sense of isolation you have as a kid,” he told Den of Geek. “So, Frankenstein to me is the pinnacle of everything, and part of me wants to do a version of it, part of me has for more than 25 years chickened out of making it. I dream I can make the greatest Frankenstein ever, but then if you make it, you’ve made it. Whether it’s great or not, it’s done. You cannot dream about it anymore. That’s the tragedy of a filmmaker. You can dream of something, but once you’ve made it, you’ve made it.”

Del Toro has also re-teamed with his longtime cinematographer Dan Laustsen and composer Alexandre Desplat.

Check out the new images from the film del Toro’s been dreaming of for years, a dream that’s come to an end for him, but not for us.