First Image from Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Frankenstein’ Takes You Inside Frankenstein’s Lab

Guillermo del Toro is adapting Mary Shelley’s classic novel Frankenstein for Netflix, and with production now wrapped, Vanity Fair has shared a first look photo from the set.

“Gothic romance was born partially out of the fascination with ruins,” del Toro tells Vanity Fair in the 2025 preview piece that ran this morning. “Sometimes they’re more beautiful than the building complete because it’s the clash of creation and destruction.”

Check out your very first look at Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein below, which takes you inside Dr. Frankenstein’s lab – a place of creation and destruction, to say the very least.

And please note that the below photo is a behind the scenes shot from the film’s set.

Expect Frankenstein sometime in 2025. And yes, it will have a theatrical run.

Jacob Elordi will be playing Frankenstein’s monster in Guillermo del Toro’s adaptation of the classic Mary Shelley novel, alongside Mia Goth, Christoph Waltz, and Oscar Isaac.

Ralph Ineson (The Witch, The First Omen) will make a “pivotal” cameo appearance in the film.

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein follows scientist Victor Frankenstein, who plays god and brings a monster to life. The story has of course been adapted countless times over the years in film, television and beyond, and we can expect del Toro’s vision will be quite unlike any others.

Del Toro is producing, writing and directing Frankenstein for Netflix, with his specific approach completely under wraps at this time. Del Toro is collaborating with producer J. Miles Dale, who served as a producer on del Toro’s “Cabinet Of Curiosities” anthology series for Netflix. 

Del Toro said of his longtime passion project way back in 2008, “The best moments in my mind of Frankenstein, of the novel, are yet to be filmed.” Stay tuned for more as we learn it.