It's alive! IT'S ALIIIVEEEE! 17 years after we first reported that Guillermo del Toro was interested in bringing his own take on Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's seminal sci-fi novel Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus to our screens, the Mexican auteur's all-star Gothic horror is in the can, on its way, and heading for Netflix this year. And today, following a presentation in which the streamer showed off its massive 2025 movie slate, Netflix gave us a pair of first-look photos from Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein.

When del Toro won the BAFTA for Best Director back in 2018 for The Shape Of Water, the fabulist filmmaker took the time to personally thank Shelley for the inspiration she has given him throughout his life and career. And, having assembled a cast including such talents as Isaac and Elordi, Mia Goth, Christoph Waltz, Felix Kammerer, Lars Mikkelsen, David Bradley, Christian Convery, and Ralph Ineson to bring his vision to fruition, it seems the notorious GdT is ready to repay that inspiration in a big way. And having made a career from locating the humanity in the outwardly monstrous, and the monstrosity in the outwardly human, weaving achingly beautiful and profoundly haunting cinematic yarns that are as like to make you cry as cower in fear, there's a solid argument to be made that cinema has been crying out for del Toro's Frankenstein just as much as the director himself has. Plus, given the father-son framing of Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio and, to a lesser extent, Nightmare Alley, this take on Shelley's book is perfectly placed to round out an eye-opening triptych of paternally concerned films; the Daddy Issues Trilogy if you will.