After celebrating its World Cup premiere at the Venice Film Festival this week, Frankenstein of the Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toropresents new official glances to Oscar Isaac (Moon Knight, Ex Machina) as Dr. Victor Frankenstein.
In this new adaptation of the 1818 literary classic by Mary Shelley, with a house in NetflixDr. Victor Frankenstein of Isaac, is a brilliant but selfish scientist who gives life to a creature in a monstrous experiment that finally leads to the ruin of both the creator and its tragic creation.
In an interview with EW, Isaac reveals that interpreting the character was not on his desire list, and it was not until the end of a talk with Del Toro, that the actor knew that the Oscar winning filmmaker wanted him for the role:
“I didn't know until after a two -hour talk,” Isaac remembers, laughing. “He told me: 'I think you have to be my victor'. And I asked him: 'How do you say?'”
“When we found Victor for the first time, he was a tattered man at the end of the Arctic. He was terrified. He was running. You didn't know if he was running away, if he was going through something or what was happening,” explains Isaac.
“When telling his story, Victor begins with his father and his own creation. 'How was I created? How was this person created? And if I'm going to tell you this horrible secret that I have, I must tell you how it got here. And that's with my own father '”. So when Guillermo and I met, we talked about that. We don't even talk about Frankenstein.
In the version of El Toro, Victor's relationship with his father (played by Charles Dance) is different from that of Shelley and some of those adaptations.
Instead of a “very kind and affectionate father,” explains Isaac, “in our film, it is not: he has a very dominant and abusive father, but who expects a lot of him. In fact, he is someone who Victor blames for the death of his beloved mother.”
And curiously, the filming was made under the provisional title Prodigal Father. Del Toro is the screenwriter, director and producer.
The Mexican filmmaker has dedicated more than a decade to this adaptation called a passion project. In Tudum, Del Toro described it as follows:
“The culmination of a trip that occupied most of my life. Monsters have become my personal belief system. There are Frankenstein traces in my films.”
The rest of the cast includes Jacob Elordi (Euphoria, Wuthering Heights) Interpret the Frankenstein monster, Mia Goth (X, Pearl) As Elizabeth, Christoph Waltz (Inglorious Basterds, Pinocchio) like Harlander, and Ralph Ineson (The Witch, The First Omen) in an “essential” cameo as Professor Krempe.
Felix Kammerer (All Quiet on the Western Front), Lars Mikkelsen (The Witcher), David Bradley (Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio), y Christian Convery (Sweet Tooth), complete the secondary cast.
The eyes to Isaac are available at the end of the note.
The details of the argument:
The story will revolve greatly around the classic story of the novel of Mary Shelley of 1818, adapted innumerable times throughout the decades.
“Set in Eastern Europe in the 19th century, the story of Dr. Pretorous, which needs to locate the Frankenstein monster, which is believed to be died in a fire forty years before, to continue with the experiments of Dr. Frankenstein.”
Del Toro previously shared about this project:
“It is a movie that I wanted to do for 50 years since I saw the first Frankenstein. I had an epiphany, and it is basically a movie. That required a lot of growth and many tools that I could not have done 10 years ago. Now I am bravely or sufficiently crazy enough or something, and we will address it.”
The film marks a new collaboration between Del Toro and the renowned composer Alexandre Desplat (The Shape of Water, Pinocchio) who is taking care of the soundtrack.
Of the bull produces next to Gary kids (The Strain, Pinocchio, Cabinet of Curiosities), J. Miles Dale, y Scott Stuber.
Frankenstein by Guillermo del Toro will premiere in some cinemas on October 17 (USA), EL October 23 (Mexico), and in Netflix worldwide on November 7.
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Source: https://cine3.com/oscar-isaac-es-el-dr-frankenstein-en-vistazos-a-frankenstein-de-guillermo-del-toro/
