In case you missed the news yesterday (thx Mac) Andrew Garfield has left Guillermo Del Toro's Frankenstein movie and Jacob Elordi has stepped in to replace him -- all six foot five inches of him. And before I hear a single person say that Jacob is too pretty to play Frankenstein (specifically Frankenstein's Monster, that is) I am going to need you to google Boris Karloff because Boris was an extremely handsome man. And Frankenstein being super-tall makes a world of sense. Still on board the project are Oscar Isaac as the good Doctor and Mia Goth as... do we know who Mia's playing?
I've seen people say she's playing The Bride but the sources I've dug around in don't seem 100% on that. There's also the role of the Doctor's Wife, at least in the original version, but I can't imagine Del Toro wouldn't spice that boring role up here in 2024. Especially with Mia Goth playing it. Perhaps those two characters will become one? Also onboard is Christoph Waltz, probably as a bad guy because Christoph Waltz. Anyway since Frankenstein has always been a deeply queer text I hope GDT leans hard into that -- Oscar Isaac is defying god to build himself a pretty pretty man, after all!
Bride of Frankenstein is Gay Canon and only a gay director should be allowed to touch it https://t.co/r7h9hSMrxq
— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) November 14, 2023