Guillermo del Toro said he “always wants more of everything” when it comes to the number of cinemas his Netflix film Frankenstein will play in; but that he is “very happy” with the streamer’s release plans.

“Look at my size, I always want more of everything,” said del Toro at the press conference for the Venice Competition film, in response to a question from Screen about the theatrical release plans. “I have to stop myself.”

“The battle we’re going to fight in telling stories is in two fronts,” said the filmmaker. “Obviously the size of the screen; but the size of the ideas is very important, the size of the ambition, of the artistic hunger that you bring to cinema. Can we reclaim scale of ideas? Can we challenge ourselves to that?

“It’s a fluid dialogue, and I’m very happy,” said

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