Vanity Fair gave Guillermo del Toro fans a first look at the director's upcoming films Frankenstein adaptation on Thursday, and viewers have come to a unanimous conclusion: This movie looks like a damn mid-'90s PC adventure game (free), right?
Everything about the shot exudes an interactive full-motion video point-and-click adventure, from the angle to the lighting to the giant green vats and the corpse mannequin that looks unnaturally blended into the shot. The image screams out to have a hand-shaped mouse cursor and an elaborate graphical user interface with Photoshop on top. There are Myst, Gabriel KnightAnd Frankenstein: Through the Monster's Eyes with Tim Curry as Dr. Frankenstein vibes. But it's – most likely – not what the final film will look like.
The strange looking shot of Frankenstein The photo provided by Netflix to Vanity Fair is a behind-the-scenes look and not a frame from the film. That's why a giant camera crane and boom microphone hover over Oscar Isaac, who stars in del Toro's new film Dr. Victor Frankenstein plays.
But who's to say del Toro hasn't been increasingly influenced by video game aesthetics over the last decade? He is a good friend of video game creator Hideo Kojima and previously worked on two canceled horror games: Konami's Silent hills And THQ and Volition's Crazy. And there are worse aesthetics to adopt or compare to when talking about video games Myst 4: Revelation And sanatorium.
Frankenstein The main roles are Isaac as Frankenstein, Jacob Elordi as his monster, Mia Goth as Frankenstein's fiancée Elizabeth and Christoph Waltz as Dr. To see Pretorius. Del Toro's adaptation also stars a number of great oddballs and intense character actors such as Charles Dance, Burn Gorman, Ralph Ineson and David Bradley.
