Del Toro’s upcoming Netflix film based on the Mary Shelley novel also stars Jacob Elordi, Mia Goth, Felix Kammerer, and Christoph Waltz.
Netflix revealed the official first look at Oscar Isaac’s protagonist in Guillermo del Toro’s forthcoming adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus.
Oscar Isaac plays Victor Frankenstein, the arrogant scientist who successfully creates life out of an assemblage of deceased body parts.
His experiment — known as the Creature in Shelley’s 1818 novel, but often colloquially and incorrectly referred to as Frankenstein across pop culture — will be portrayed by Jacob Elordi in Frankenstein.
The film also stars Mia Goth (Pearl), Felix Kammerer (All Quiet on the Western Front), Lars Mikkelsen (Ahsoka), David Bradley (Harry Potter), Charles Dance (The Crown), and two-time Oscar winner Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds).
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Del Toro’s most notable awards season success, The Shape of Water, which was released in December 2017, garnered 13 Oscar nominations, winning Best Picture and Best Director, among others.
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Shelley’s novel has been an essential text in the horror film genre, having first been adapted as a silent one-reeler in 1910.
The story was perhaps most famously adapted for the screen in James Whale’s 1931 film, which starred Boris Karloff as the Creature.
The film spawned a number of sequels, including 1935’s Bride of Frankenstein.
Kenneth Branagh directed himself as Victor (opposite De Niro’s Creature) in 1994’s Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.
Paul McGuigan (Sherlock) helmed 2015’s Victor Frankenstein, starring James McAvoy as the titular scientist and Daniel Radcliffe as Igor.
Many other projects — including recent films like Poor Things and Lisa Frankenstein — have drawn inspiration from Shelley without directly adapting her work.
There is another 2025 Frankenstein project: Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride, which is a riff on the 1935 Bride of Frankenstein film and feature Jessie Buckley as the Creature’s titular spouse.
That film, hitting theaters in September by Warner, stars Christian Bale, Peter Sarsgaard, Jake Gyllenhaal, Penélope Cruz, and Annette Bening.
Cast
Oscar Isaac as Victor Frankenstein
Christian Convery as young Victor
Jacob Elordi as Frankenstein’s monster
Mia Goth as Lady Elizabeth Harlander, William’s fiancée whom Victor has feelings for;
Goth also appears as Baroness Claire Frankenstein, Victor’s late mother who died in childbirth
Felix Kammerer as William Frankenstein, Victor’s younger brother
Lars Mikkelsen as Captain Anderson
Christoph Waltz as Henrich Harlander, Elizabeth’s maternal uncle and wealthy arms manufacturer who funds Victor’s experiments
Charles Dance as Baron Leopold Frankenstein, Victor’s strict, oppressive father and renowned physician.
(Dance had previously played Victor Frankenstein’s father in the unrelated Victor Frankenstein (2015)
Lauren Collins as Hunter’s Wife
David Bradley as Blind Man
Sofia Galasso as Little Girl
Ralph Ineson as Professor Krempe
Burn Gorman as Executioner
