Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Frankenstein‘ Receives 15-Minute Standing Ovation at Venice Film Festival
Venice, Italy – Guillermo del Toro’s highly anticipated adaptation of Mary Shelley‘s Frankenstein premiered at the venice Film Festival this evening, eliciting a remarkable 15-minute standing ovation from an enthusiastic audience. The film,starring Oscar Isaac as Dr. Victor Frankenstein and Jacob Elordi as his creation, is in competition for the festival’s top prize, the Golden Lion.
Del Toro, a previous Golden Lion winner for 2017’s The Shape of Water (which later won four Oscars, including Best Picture and Director), has spent years developing this version of the classic tale. Frankenstein will be released by Netflix in November. The director described the story as a lifelong passion,stating,”It was a religion for me…I always waited for the movie to be done in the right conditions,both creatively in terms of achieving the scope that it needed for me to make it different,to make it at a scale that you could reconstruct the whole world.”
The film also features Mia Goth, Felix Kammerer, Lars Mikkelsen, David Bradley, christian Convery, Charles Dance, and Christoph Waltz. Del Toro produced the film alongside J. Miles Dale and Scott Stuber.
Frankenstein adapts Shelley’s 1818 novel,focusing on the tragic story of a brilliant scientist who brings a creature to life,only to see both creator and creation undone by the experiment. The premiere marks a meaningful moment for the film and signals early awards season buzz for del Toro and his cast.
