Guillermo del Toro’s forthcoming Netflix film, Frankenstein , has been a passion project for the director for many years. He’s been talking about making a Frankenstein movie since at least 2007 , and basically thanked Mary Shelley for existing during his 2018 BAFTA acceptance speech for Best Director . This fact probably shouldn’t come as much of a surprise to anyone who’s seen the way his films consistently explore questions of monstrousness, agency, and what it means to be human. But now that he’s achieved his lifelong dream — and that film is already piling up Oscar buzz — what could possibly be next for him?

Maybe adapting another famous tale of a tortured and monstrous villain: The Phantom of the Opera, a character that has historically often been compared to Frankenste

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