Here’s Your First Look at Jacob Elordi’s Monster in ‘Frankenstein’

After its splashy Venice Film Festival premiere, Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein is now finally about to hit screens big and small. The triple Oscar winner’s new retelling of Mary Shelley’s Gothic classic, which he has directed, written, and produced, will arrive in cinemas on October 17, and then land on Netflix on November 7.

As in the original novel, and its countless onscreen depictions including 1931’s Frankenstein starring Boris Karloff, it follows Victor Frankenstein, the pioneering scientist who conducts an unorthodox experiment that produces a terrifying creature. Jacob Elordi plays that hulking monster, taking over a role once snapped up by Andrew Garfield, who reportedly then departed the project as a result of strike-related scheduling conflicts. Opposite him? Oscar