US EditionA team of artisans brings Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Frankenstein’ to life
Del Toro’s $120 million Netflix epic features handcrafted costumes, detailed creature design, and elaborate sets including a massive laboratory and an Arctic ship.
- On Friday, Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein, a $120,000,000 Netflix epic, opens in theaters and begins streaming Nov. 7.
- Guillermo del Toro enlisted regular collaborators and artisan teams, feeling a profound kinship with the monster and aiming to exalt the character beyond fear.
- Numerous extensive sets include a giant whaling ship lodged in Arctic ice and a sprawling laboratory, built in Toronto with research trips to Scotland and London; cinematographer Dan Lausten used candle lighting and wide angles.
- Seen as part of a triptych, Alexandre Desplat, composer, says his score expresses the creature's unspoken yearning and links Frankenstein with The Shape of Water and Pinocchio.
- Departing from the 1931 original, Mike Hill, creature designer, and Guillermo del Toro crafted a flesh-and-blood monster shaped around Jacob Elordi that evolves through mud, snow, wolves and dynamite and wears the tattered hooded cloak.
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Review: Guillermo del Toro builds a handsome, grand ‘Frankenstein’ that is all his own
Guillermo del Toro has been telling monster stories for as long as he’s been making films. A romantic with keen appreciation for the macabre, his creations are things of strange beauty, haunting, poetic and unforgettable. It’s no wonder his earliest love was Frankenstein, first the Boris Karloff film, then the novel, which set him on a path to becoming a filmmaker.
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A team of artisans brings Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Frankenstein’ to life
In “Frankenstein,” metaphors are hard to resist. Moviemaking, itself, is a Frankenstein art. Each element of production — the costumes, the set design, the lighting, the music — is brought together like appendages stitched into one body.
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Throughout his career, Guillermo del Toro has made a history of proving that it is the monster who is good and it is men who are evil. Here he returns with Frankenstein – perhaps what he was building towards his entire career – the ultimate example of this narrative. All the heart and soul is poured into this gothic epic; lavish and ultimately spellbinding. We open on a boat stranded in the ice in the far north; a wounded man and a mysterious fi…
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