In the middle of a random phone call several years back, Guillermo del Toro told Mike Hill — his longtime concept artist and prosthetic makeup designer — that his next movie would be Frankenstein . No timetable, no official offer, no follow-up for weeks. “I hung up and I’m like, ‘What? Wait!’ He kind of dangled the carrot a little bit,” Hill tells The Hollywood Reporter. A few weeks later, del Toro invited Hill to breakfast — and there, the Oscar-winning director cut right to the chase: “Look, if you don’t do this movie, Mike, I’m not doing this movie. So if we’re making Frankenstein , it’s your decision.” Hill recalls this, then muses with a boyish grin, “So that was kind of flattering.”

In the middle of a random phone call several years back, Guillermo del Toro told Mike Hil

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