Among the famous author who work today there are a number of views on why one would like to do their film on NetflixGiven the lack of theater distribution that comes with working at the streaming service. But director Guillermo del Torowho won an Oscar with Netflix for his hold of “Pinocchio” offered a new angle on the issue during the press conference for “Frankenstein“His latest Netflix movie, premiere at 82nd Venice Film festival.
“For me, the battle is that we will find to tell stories on two fronts. Of course, the size of the screen is, but the size of the ideas is very important. The size of the ambition, the size of the artistic hunger that you bring to the cinema,” said the best director’s winner. “It’s a matter of, can we regain the scale and recover the idea scale? Can we challenge ourselves to it?”
Del Toro has dreamed of making his own “Frankenstein” adaptation since he was a child, but “I always waited for the film to be made under the right conditions both creatively and when it comes to achieving the range it needed for me to do it differently, to do it on a scale that you could reconstruct the whole world,” he said. Netflix was the studio that finally made it possible, with the film which reportedly had a budget of $ 120 million.
The director reminded the audience of the festival Press that there has been cases before there even a completely theatrical edition of his did not go as he imagined. “You never know what will happen. When we released ‘Nightmare Alley’, we were released next to ‘Spider Man (No way home) and Omicron, the variation in Covid, and we lasted very little, so you never know what format it will be,” said the director.
At least with Netflix, “What I know is reaching over 300 million viewers,” he said. “You take the chance and challenge of making a movie that can transform themselves varied, beautifully, and which develops the cinema, and then you provide theaters in the beginning and it makes me a very creative experience.”
“Frankenstein” will receive a limited theater publishing on October 17, 2025 and a global edition of Netflix on November 7, 2025.
