Look at the scale of Guillermo del Toro’s ship set in Toronto built for his long-gestating Frankenstein movie for Netflix.
At CineSpace Studios Marine Terminal near Cherry Beach?
took these pics of "Frankenstein", directed by Guillermo del Toro, filming in Toronto today. @TOFilming_EM pic.twitter.com/ZED8T4JNx2
— Andrew Thomas (@andrewbent) April 9, 2024
We first saw the ship set in late January in the background of a Guillermo del Toro post, but the image didn’t do it justice.
What’s Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein movie about?
Set in Easter Europe in the 19th Century, this is the story of Dr. Pretorious, who needs to track down Frankenstein’s monster (Jacob Elordi) -believed to have died in a fire forty years before–in order to continue the experiments of Dr. Victor Frankenstein (Oscar Isaac).
I’m doing Frankenstein. We’re working on it, we start shooting on it in [March]. It’s a movie I’ve been wanting to do for 50 years since I saw the first Frankenstein and I had an epiphany and is basically a movie that requires a lot of growth and a lot of tools that I couldn’t have done 10 years ago, 20 years ago and now I’m brave or crazy enough or something and we’re going to tackle it. — Guillermo del Toro to Collider.
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Ahead of production, the Oscar-winning director gathered most of his Frankenstein cast — Oscar Isaac, Mia Goth, Christoph Waltz and Charles Dance — at Pai restaurant in Toronto.
Production was delayed two weeks but began in early March.
Some weeks later, the 6′ 5″ tall Jacob Elordi joined the director and co-star Mia Goth for another dinner at Pai restaurant.
Related: Jacob Elordi at Toronto’s Pai With Frankenstein Director Guillermo del Toro
Frankenstein
Working title: PRODIGAL FATHER.
Filming dates: March 04 2024 – June 13 2024.
Plus some on-location shooting in gothic Scotland and England: July 2024 – October 2024.
Writer/Director: Guillermo del Toro.
Cast: Oscar Isaac, Jacob Elordi, Mia Goth, Christoph Waltz, Felix Kammerer, Lars Mikkelsen, David Bradley, Christian Convery, Charles Dance, Felix Kammerer, Sofia Galasso.
Soundstages: Cinespace Toronto.
Filming in Toronto:
Pre-production.
Toronto, the studio, today. Looks like somebody parked on my spot. pic.twitter.com/17ByUDoOvW
— Guillermo del Toro (@RealGDT) January 24, 2024
Three weeks into production.
Shopping for books at Acadia- one of Toronto’s best bookstores- finished third week of shooting on “F” (photo by Kim Morgan) pic.twitter.com/Yv9MHS8P6Z
— Guillermo del Toro (@RealGDT) March 23, 2024