Frankenstein (2025)

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Last week, director Guillermo del Toro revealed that he will probably begin filming his "Frankenstein" film in about five years, but has already cast his friend Doug Jones (Hellboy, Pan's Labyrinth) as the monster.

To get a few more details, Sci Fi Wire caught up with Jones, who revealed that he learned of the news the same way as everyone else, on the internet.

"Guillermo did say to the press that he's already cast me as his monster, but we've yet to talk about it," he explained. "But in his mind, if that's what he's decided, then it's done. He's got a four-picture deal with Universal, so once he's done with The Hobbit, I think the first thing that's up on the docket will be Frankenstein. And reinvention is going to be the name of it, because he's going back to the Mary Shelley book and starting fresh with it."

Even though "Frankenstein" will not go into production for several more years, Jones said that he will soon meet with del Toro to begin doing make-up tests. "We are starting makeup tests, actually, in a couple weeks," he said. "We are going to do some tests just to see, because he has five years to play with this. He's taking that luxury of time to make this absolutely perfect."

Jones added that the monster will be based on the artwork of the famed horror illustrator Bernie Wrightson, who spent close to a decade creating illustrations for a special print edition of Shelley's Frankenstein. "It will not be a big, lumbering Boris Karloff type, but more of a skinny, skeletal, stringy-muscled version made from spare parts of some other guy," Jones said.