NEED TO KNOW
- Guillermo del Toro premiered the first footage for Frankenstein during the Netflix Tudum 2025 live event
- In it, Oscar Isaac plays Victor Frankenstein, while Jacob Elordi terrifies as the monster
- The movie arrives on Netflix in November
Jacob Elordi is teased as a towering monster built by Oscar Isaac in the first trailer for director Guillermo del Toro’s take on Frankenstein.
The first footage from the film, which is out in November, was showcased during the Netflix Tudum 2025 live event on Saturday, May 31.
In it, Isaac, 45, plays Victor Frankenstein, the mad scientist who creates a monster, played by Euphoria star Elordi, 27. The cast also includes Mia Goth, Felix Kammerer, Lars Mikkelsen, David Bradley, Charles Dance and Christoph Waltz.
Oscar-winner del Toro, 60, is known for films like Pan’s Labyrinth, The Shape of Water, Nightmare Alley and 2022’s Pinocchio. He’s been working on the adaptation of Mary Shelley’s classic story for over a decade and considers the 1931 Frankenstein film among his favorites of all time.
According to a logline from Netflix, Isaac’s Dr. Frankenstein is a “brilliant but egotistical scientist who brings a creature to life in a monstrous experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of both the creator and his tragic creation.”
Elordi replaced Andrew Garfield in the role of the monster. In December, Garfield, 41, told Deadline he is “very, very glad” it was Priscilla actor Elordi taking on the part
“I am of course disappointed that I didn’t get to do it because I love Guillermo, I love Oscar and everyone that he assembled, so I was disappointed,” Garfield added at the time. “But meeting Jacob [at the Marrakech International Film Festival] felt really serendipitous so that I could really see and hear that maybe he needed that experience more than me.”
Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein is out in November.
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