Guillermo Del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth, Hellboy II: The Golden Army) is an ambitious director who likes to take on many challenges. One of them is to bring back the classic tale of FRANKENSTEIN and of course the iconic monster which has been re-imagined by many different filmmakers.
Del Toro won’t reveal who he has in mind to play Dr. Frankenstein but he does have somebody in mind that he thinks would be perfect to play the monster
This is what he said to Shocktilyoudrop recently…
“For the monster I would love to have Doug Jones,” he revealed. Jones has worked for the director as a creature performance since Mimic and plays Abe Sapien in the Hellboy films. “I think he can do a fantastic job. Ron 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 Berni Wrightson’s. He’s lanky and long and it’s gorgeous in a tragic way. Doug has all of those qualities.”
“gorgeous” I never thought that word would be associated with Monster.
Afterwards, Doug Jones who is freakishly tall, was immediately informed about what Del Toro said and he was flattered about the idea, adding that he would feel honored to play the role the late great Boris Karloff once played.
I don’t know if I’d be that excited if I were Doug Jones,,… from playing a creature to playing another creature..Not much of a step up there if you ask me.
So what exactly that Guillermo Del Toro has in mind for this project?
“I think it’s going to have to be developed very carefully over the next four years,”
Commenting on the fact that he’ll be pretty busy for the next few years with fellow director Peter Jackson, working on the movie adaptation THE HOBBIT, which means the FRANKENSTEIN Project would have to wait a while.
“Look, I would never attempt to recreate the 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.”
