The first trailer for Guillermo del Toro's long, long gestating passion project Frankenstein was a corker: atmospheric, intense, thrumming with the Gothic sci-fi heartbeat of Mary Shelley's original Promethean tale. But while the first teaser for the Mexican fabulist's Netflix bound movie gave us plenty of Oscar Isaac's mad scientist Victor Frankenstein and generous lashings of Mia Goth's bride-to-be Elizabeth Lavenza, it was a decidedly Creature-lite affair. The same certainly can't be said of our latest look at del Toro's film, though — this final trailer is all about Jacob Elordi's man-made monster. Lock in and check him out below;
We might've had a Creature who speaks before in a cinematic take on Frankenstein (Robert De Niro in Kenneth Branagh's Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, in case you were wondering), but Elordi's take on the iconic character — here envisioned as the abandoned son of a narcissistic father — looks primed to breathe new, poetic life into Shelley's creation. Hewn from soldiers killed in the Crimean War, Elordi's Creature — seen sparingly but heard clearly in this trailer — is indeed, as del Toro told Empire in our latest issue, "so shockingly beautiful," a hulking figure with piercing eyes, lustrous hair, and knife-sharp cheekbones. He's also tortured by the memories of dead men, and driven by a potentially devastating will to see his maker give him a bride: "If you are not to award me love, then I will indulge in rage," threatens Elordi's gruff-voiced creation over ominous shots of high society gaiety, Arctic Circle shootouts, and fire… lots of fire.
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For anyone who's read Shelley's book, or seen any of its myriad screen interpretations to date, suffice it to say that a happily ever after is probably not on the cards in del Toro's latest cinematic fairy tale. But based on everything we've seen so far, expect to see great beauty, profound humanity, and a whole other side to Jacob Elordi when Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein hits select cinemas on 17 October ahead of its Netflix release on 7 November.