The director of ‘Frankenstein’, Guillermo del Toro, speaks of Monsters, AI and Netflix

Guillermo’s adaptation from Mary Shelley’s bull FrankensteinA Gothic novel of centuries, written in 1818, generated a wide variety of forceful questions at the press conference of the Venice Film Festival today, since the filmmaker was asked about artificial intelligence, Netflix’s strategy of theatrical communications and real monsters in today’s society.

The veteran filmmaker presented a much softer one to start the afternoon session on Saturday, since he was asked why he has been obsessed with making a Frankenstein Movie since I was 7 years old.

“Honestly, it is a kind of dream that was more than that, it was a religion for me since I was a child. They raised me very Catholic, and I never understood the saints. Then, when I saw Boris Karloff on the screen, I understood a saint or a messiah,” said Del Toro during the press conference that joined for his cast, including Oscar Isaac, Jacob, Messia, Mesia, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look Craying, look crured, Cruy. Waltz, Felix Kammerer and composer Alexandre Decat. “I always waited for the film to be made in the right conditions, both creatively in terms of achieving the scope it needed to be different, and that it is on a scale that can rebuild the entire world. I am now in postpartum depression.”

Del Toro directed from his own script, and the story focuses on Victor Frankenstein, played by Isaac, a brilliant but selfish scientist who gives life to a creature (Elordi) in a monstrous experiment that finally leads to undoing the creator as well as his tragic creation.

Obtaining the main role proved to be a dream come true for Isaac.

“I can’t believe it is here right now. I can’t believe we have arrived at this place for two years, sitting in [Guillermo’s] Table eating Cuban pork and speaking of our parents and our lives, to him saying: ‘I want you to be a victor, then you are not sure if it was true or if I only dreamed. It just looked like a pinnacle, “he explained.” For Guillermo to say: ‘I am creating this banquet for you, you just have to appear and eat’, that was the truth. He felt like a fusion. I simply hooked Guillermo, and we threw ourselves through the well. ”

Frankenstein It opens tonight, August 30, within a large room followed by a theater launch limited on October 17, and a global Netflix arch on November 7. A journalist asked Del Toro if there is an agreement with Netflix on how many films will be released and if he is happy or not with the agreement.

“I mean, look at my size. I always want more of all,” he joked about the bull before focusing on the debate of theatrical transmission versus the transmission. “For me, the battle that we are going to fight in telling stories is on two fronts. Obviously, there is the size of the screen, 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 is a matter of claim and we claim the scale of ideas? Can we challenge ourselves?

That said, the filmmaker, who is a usual Netflix collaborator, said he is happy to take the reach of the streamer of more than 300 million viewers worldwide. “You take the opportunity and the challenge of making a film that can be transformed in a variable, wonderful way, and that evokes that cinema, and then provides theaters for that at the beginning, and that does, for me, a very creative experience.”

On the subject of how the monstrous themes of the film reflect the current times, Del Toro confirmed that “we live in a moment of terror and intimidation, certainly”, but the counter of that “is love.” And the artificial intelligence counter is intelligence.

“I am not afraid of AI,” said Del Toro flatly. “I am afraid of natural stupidity, which is much more abundant.”