Making of ‘Frankenstein’: Guillermo del Toro’s Take on the Classic

A total of 100 shooting days and 119 set builds went into making his fantasy a reality.

Guillermo del Toro says he spent his whole filmmaking career working toward Frankenstein. In the editing process, he showed the movie to about a dozen of his closest filmmaker friends. “The reaction was uniformly encouraging and soothing and nurturing,” he says. “They loved the movie, and they felt how much it summarized everything I’ve been trying for more than three decades of feature directing.” John Wilson/Netflix Not unlike viewers of Netflix’s Frankenstein , the first thing that actors Oscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi saw on set for the epic new Mary Shelley adaptation was a life-size

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