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A 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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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.
Review of Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein
Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel, Frankenstein, was so evocative for its time, paving the way for nearly one hundred years of adaptations from the more faithful film adaptations to animated films and comic books. One filmmaker who has always been a notable fan is Guillermo del Toro, who has been saying for decades in interviews that he’s wanted to tackle Shelley’s novel. Finally, he was able to get his movie made, thanks to Netflix footing the presumab…
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