‘Frankenstein’ teaser trailer sees Jacob Elordi in shocking costume
Netflix have released the official teaser trailer for Frankenstein, directed by Guillermo del Toro and starring Jacob Elordi.
The first clip from the adaptation of Mary Shelley’s classic gothic novel opens on the planes of ice that the book so famously ends with. Jacob Elordi’s figure as the complex and horrifying figure of Frankenstein’s monster, not the man, looms throughout the dark, dramatic piece.
The role did not originally belong to Elordi. Andrew Garfield was initially announced for the part, but scheduling conflicts caused by the actors’ strike forced him to vacate his role in Frankenstein. Elordi was drafted in as part of a stacked ensemble cast.
In the trailer, we see Oscar Isaac play Victor Frankenstein, the tortured creator of his own destruction. In the trailer, he appears in a constant state of turmoil and disarray. “Some of what I will tell you is fact. Some is not. But it is all true.”
“What manner of creature is this?” a voice asks incredulously, as we see the first far-off shot of Elordi’s warped and inconspicuous form. “What manner of devil made him?” the same voice asks, and the camera cuts to Isaac’s face, wearied and horrified. “I did,” he whispers.
Mia Goth, star of the beloved Pearl trilogy, and two-time Academy Award winner Christoph Waltz round out the core quartet. Later this year, Elordi will lend his talents to another literary adaptation, for Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights alongside Barbie actor Margot Robbie.
With three Oscars of his own, making him the first person in history to win trophies for ‘Best Picture,’ ‘Best Director,’ and ‘Best Animated Feature’, del Toro is back on familiar ground crafting a Gothic fantasy. Previous offerings from the director include Pinocchio and Pan’s Labyrinth.
The filmmaker has been a longtime fan of Shelley; he even gave her a shout-out in his 2018 acceptance speech for a BAFTA received for Shape of Water. He declared, “The most important figure from English legacy is, incredibly, for me, a teenager by the name of Mary Shelley, and she has remained a figure as important in my life as if she were family. And so many times when I want to give up, when I think about giving up, when people tell me that dreaming of the movies and the stories I dream are impossible, I think of her.”
Frankenstein will be released on Netflix this November.