Get ready for a monstrous treat! Guillermo del Toro’s highly anticipated adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is finally coming to life. Seventeen years after del Toro first expressed interest in bringing his unique take on the classic sci-fi novel to the screen, the film is now complete and heading to Netflix later this year.
As part of Netflix’s massive 2025 movie slate presentation, the streamer unveiled two first-look photos from the film, giving fans a glimpse into del Toro’s dark and Gothic world. The film boasts an all-star cast, including Oscar Isaac as Victor Frankenstein, Jacob Elordi as the monster, Mia Goth, Christoph Waltz, and more.
Del Toro’s passion project is expected to premiere on Netflix in November 2025, with a theatrical release also planned ³. With the film’s release just around the corner, fans can expect more updates and sneak peeks in the coming months.

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.
Shot between Scotland and Canada, amid the Gothic architecture of Edinburgh and frosty climes of Toronto, del Toro’s Frankenstein — one of two major Frankenstein-related works releasing this year (the other being Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride!) — is shaping up to be the project of a lifetime from one of cinema’s own great mad scientists. We’ll see whether Guillermo del Toro’s take on the twisted scientist and his pitiful son inspires love or causes fear when it lands on Netflix in November.