This morning, Netflix unveiled their 2025 film slate, and not too many surprises showed up. Only a few. It turns out “The Old Guard 2,” despite reshoots occurring in the spring, will be released this summer. I gather these “reshoots” are just pickup shots.
Already expected, and now officially announced for 2025, are new films from Noah Baumbach Kathryn Bigelow (still untitled), Guillermo del Toro, Edward Berger, Joe Carnahan, not to mention Rian Johnson’s ‘Knives Out 3’ — all set for fall release. Gareth Evans'’ “Havoc” will be released this “spring.”
Speaking of del Toro, we now have out first look at Oscar Isaac as Dr. Frankenstein in “Frankenstein,” releasing in November on Netflix. Here’s Variety’s description of the footage shown this morning at the presser:
The footage, assembled by the “Pan’s Labyrinth” director himself, saw Isaac’s Victor Frankenstein facing off with Mia Goth as a seemingly well-to-do aristocrat. It also provided a brief glimpse at Jacob Elordi as Frankenstein’s monster, towering over Isaac’s bed with long black hair, stitched-up gray skin and a glint of red in his eyes.
Shooting on del Toro’s “Frankenstein” kicked off back in January 25, and finally wrapped production in October. That’s nine months of shooting, with barely a break in between.
“Frankenstein,” a lifelong passion project of del Toro’s that he’s been dreaming up since childhood, will feature a talented batch of actors that includes the likes of Isaac, Jacob Elordi, Christoph Waltz, Mia Goth and Charles Dance. Dan Lausten is the DP, and this will be his fifth collaboration with del Toro, after “Mimic,” Crimson Peak,” “The Shape of Water,” and “Nightmare Alley.”
“The fact is I’ve been dreaming of doing a ‘Frankenstein’ movie since I was a child,” Del Toro told ComingSoon back in 2008. Del Toro is known to have many collectibles of Boris Karloff as the monster and has been developing this project for over a decade. The closest he got to making the film was in 2018, but soon after Universal Pictures scrapped the entire thing.
I would imagine “Frankenstein” is eyeing a Venice premiere, although del Toro’s last film, “Pinocchio,” skipped the Lido and went for a BFI world premiere. Regardless, Venice will probably screen many of the titles mentioned in this piece, especially Baumbach’s “Jay Kelly” which I’m told had already been selected months ago to premiere at Venice.
