The Hobbit and HellBoy II: The Golden Army Director, Guillermo Del Toro, has named the person he thinks should play the part of Frankenstein when he does his take on the Frankenstein story. In an interview with ShockTillYouDrop.com, Del Toro mentioned that …
“For the monster I would love to have Doug Jones,” he revealed. Jones has worked for the director as a creature performance since Mimic and plays Abe Sapien in the Hellboy films. “I think he can do a fantastic job. Ron looks seven feet tall in Hellboy, but he’s not. I think we could do that with Doug, but I would love to do it with him. The only vision of the Frankenstein monster I’ve ever latched onto is Berni Wrightson’s. He’s lanky and long and it’s gorgeous in a tragic way. Doug has all of those qualities.”
In terms of the movie itself Del Toro says he’s been bouncing back and forth to London lately for the Hobbit films. There are no scripts yet, however, “We already started notes and underlining and e-mailing back and forth. A few lines have been written here and there, but we will have the big pow-wow [soon] - bad pizza, take-out food in a sort’ve a pressure cooker [meeting] in about two weeks.”
I think a Del Toro adaptation of Frankenstein would be awesome. I love his work, Dark and beautiful at the same time.
