Del Toro Riffs on Frankenstein

Posted by bob in Films, News on June 29th, 2008

While at the Hollywood premiere of Hellboy II: The Golden Army, director Guillermo Del Toro spoke about his dream of making a Frankenstein project. “For the monster I would love to have Doug Jones,” he told the press. Jones, of course, has been a mainstay for the director in Mimic and the two Hellboy films.

“I think he can do a fantastic job. Ron [Perelman] looks seven feet tall in Hellboy, but he’s not. I think we could do that with Doug, but I would love to do it with him. The only vision of the Frankenstein monster I’ve ever latched onto is Bernie Wrightson’s. He’s lanky and long and it’s gorgeous in a tragic way. Doug has all of those qualities.

“I think it’s going to have to be developed very carefully over the next four years,” he guessed. “Look, I would never attempt to recreate the [James] Whale Frankenstein, but I do think there is an alternate story that could be told about the Frankenstein mythos.

“It’s more like a fairy tale, a strange, weird fairy tale.”