For a director like Guillermo del Toro, you can only imagine what he’ll do when he gets to create his fantasy project. With Frankenstein , Del Toro and his crew of craft collaborators were finally able to achieve his years-long dream of bringing Mary Shelley’s book — in which scientist Victor Frankenstein creates a humanoid being — to life.

“It was his dream masterpiece and the summit of his triptych — the creature of The Shape of Water , the creature of Pinocchio and the creature of Frankenstein ,” says composer Alexandre Desplat .

“The first time I heard about Frankenstein was many, many years ago when we shot Mimic , says cinematographer Dan Laustsen. “He talked about that as his dream project. I read and love the book, but then I got the screenplay and it was

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