By Oscar-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro’s long-gestating “Frankenstein” film adaptation is currently in the midst of production.
This weekend he has shared a behind-the-scenes photo from the movie via his official X account, the shot sees him alongside cinematographer Dan Laustsen and a fellow actor on the set of the movie.
The shot seemingly confirms the inclusion of the Captain Walton framing device from the original Mary Shelley novel. The book begins and ends at the North Pole in the 18th century where a ship is stuck in pack ice.
Much of the original story is told in flashback as Dr. Victor Frankenstein, whom the ship’s crew found on a drifting ice floe, recounts to the captain of the ship what happened and his pursuit of the creature he created.
This would mark one of the few Frankenstein works to incorporate that element of the novel, one of the others being Kenneth Branagh’s 1994 film adaptation “Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein” which saw Aidan Quinn playing Captain Walton.
The film stars Oscar Isaac as Victor Frankenstein and Jacob Elordi as monster along with Mia Goth, Christoph Waltz, Felix Kammerer, Lars Mikkelsen, David Bradley, Christian Convery, Charles Dance, and Ralph Ineson.
Two of my favorite Danes !! Shooting F pic.twitter.com/sk0B0IIebY
— Guillermo del Toro (@RealGDT) April 21, 2024
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