Director Guillermo del Toro began publicly speaking about wanting to adapt Frankenstein in 2007 when he told Jo Blo that he “would kill to make” a “Miltonian tragedy” version of Mary Shelley’s classic. In the intervening years, the film began to take shape. Confirmed for Universal in 2008 with Doug Jones as the monster, it was shelved for the Dark Universe, per Jones himself. Nearly two decades and a Best Picture win for del Toro later, his passion project has a pulse and the mad geniuses at Netflix have an awards season contender.

Below, the trailer , cast , release date , and everything we know about Guillermo del Toro’s monster, Frankenstein.

The trailer has no monster.

There’s a lot of spooky stuff in the first Frankenstein teaser trailer, released on May 31. Th

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