First Look at Guillermo del Toro's FRANKENSTEIN Starring Oscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi

Here’s a first look at director Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein. It’s been a dream of the filmmaker to adapt Mary Shelley’s classic horror story into a film.

This is a project he’s been trying to direct most of his career, and judging from this first image, it looks like it will be a beautiful and visually stunning film.

Oscar Isaac plays Dr. Frankenstein, who tampers with the natural order by turning dead tissue into a new being, a monster played by Jacob Elordi.

Vanity Fair says that “much of the film, including this laboratory scene, takes place within the remnants of once-great structures.”

Del Toro says: “Gothic romance was born partially out of the fascination with ruins. Sometimes they’re more beautiful than the building complete because it’s the clash of creation and destruction.”

The story follows Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant but egotistical scientist who brings a creature to life in a monstrous experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of both the creator and his tragic creation.

Del Toro previously said of the project, “It’s a movie I have been wanting to do for 50 years since I saw the first Frankenstein. I had an epiphany, and it’s basically a movie that required a lot of growth and a lot of tools that I couldn’t have done 10 years ago. Now I’m brave or crazy enough or something, and we’re gonna tackle it.”

The directoralso explained that he did have a fear of making this movie: “Frankenstein to me is the pinnacle of everything, and part of me wants to do a version of it, part of me has for more than 25 years chickened out of making it.

“I dream I can make the greatest Frankenstein ever, but then if you make it, you’ve made it. Whether it’s great or not, it’s done. You cannot dream about it anymore. That’s the tragedy of a filmmaker.

“You can dream of something but once you’ve made it, you’ve made it. That’s it. You landed a 10 or you landed a 6.5 but you were at the Olympics already, and you were judged.”

Producer J. Miles Dale went on to say that it’s going to be a "deeply emotional" movie, and added: "In the last couple of films, certainly with Nightmare Alley and then with Pinocchio, we've dealt with the whole father-son relationship. And Guillermo and I both lost our fathers in the last few years.

“When you have a strong father figure, it's a big part of our lives. This version of Frankenstein very much goes down that thematic road. So, I feel like this is the third film in Guillermo's father trilogy. That's exciting, and when you read the script, it's very emotional and, of course, very iconic."

The movie also stars Mia Goth and Christoph Waltz.