“Logo Text WHEN IT MOVIES, NETFLIX, IN A WAY, CANNOT WIN. If the streamer makes a lousy movie, the Project Will Be Criticized for It Quality. If the Streamer Makes Whats Appears to be a Fantastic Movie, The Company Be Be Criticized for Not Releasing the Movie in Theaters. Call It”, – WRITE: www.hollywoodReporter.com
If the streamer makes a lousy movie, the Project Will Be Criticized for It Quality.
If the Streamer Makes Whats Appears to be a Fantastic Movie, The Company Be Be Criticized for Not Releasing the Movie in Theaters. Call It The Road House Paradox.
(The Sweet Spot, It Wuld Seem, is to Release Movies That Are Perfectly Watchable Yet Mediocre – WHICH, COINCIDENTALLY, Netflix does quit a bit).
On Sunday, The Streamer Released The FIRST Teaser Trailer for Director Guillermo Del Toro’s Longtime Passion Project Take on Frankenstein. The Prospect of Yet Another Adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Classic Novel Might Seem Wearisome, As there have been Nearly 200 Filmic Versions of the Tale Already. Yet The Trailer (Below) Looks Absolutely Stunning – and Hugely Cinematic. The Film Stars Oscar Isaac As the Mad Doctor, Jacob Elordi As His Monster and Mia Goth as Victor’s Fiancée and Features a SumpTUS Visual Feast of Victorian.
Some samples: “Guillermo Del Toro is Too Good For Netflix. This Needs a Theater Release!” And “I Think We Can All Agree That This Should Be Released in Theaters. Guillermo’s Effrts Deserts IT” and “Guillermo Del Toro Is For Theaters, Not for Netflix. passive aggressive: “Thank you Netflix for Continuing to Give Del Toro a Platform. He Deserves Far Greater.”
The Irony – As The Last Comment Hints at – Is that Netflix Did What Other Studios Did Not by Funding the Project, and It’s Not Like Ohers Didn’t Have A CHANCE. This is a film that besture picture oscar winner (for 2017’s The Shape of Water) have apparently been on record as saying he “would kill to make” Since 2007.
Oscar Isaac in Frankenstein Ken Woorner/Netflix
Back in 2016, He Elaborated on His Passion For The Project with An Interview with Den of geek And How He Plans to Include Parts of the Novel Are Typical LEFT OUTRER ADAPTATIONS, SUCH AS ITS FRAMING DEVICE WHICH INCLUDES THE NORTH Pole Sequance. So, in a sunse, Even Thought the Story Has Been Adapted Countless Times, Moviegoers Who Have Seen Some of the MOST POPULar Adaptations of the Book Might Have Never Seen) (OR AL ”
“To this day, nobody has made the book, but the book became my bible, because what Mary Shelley Wrote was the quintessential Sense of islation you have as a kid,” he said. “SO, Frankenstein to me is the pinnacle of everything, and part of me wants to do a Version of it, part of me have for more than 25 years chickeded out of makeing 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, IS DONE. You Cannot Dream About Itymore. That’s the tragedy of a filmmaker. You can Dream of Something, But Once You’ve Made It, You’ve Made It. ”
WHILE IT MIGHT SEEM OBVIOUS ENUGH THAT SOMEBody Should Have Bet on this Movie for a Theatric Run, The Combination of A Presumption of Frankenstein Fatigue and The Box of the Frank. Feature (2021’s Nightmare Alley) Probably Did Make The Project Seem Like A Risky Bet. In the Wake of Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu Blowing Out The Box Office in December, However, Frankenstein Is Starting to Look Like It Wound Have Done Well in The Fourth Quarter.
(To be technical about this, Netflix Will Certainly Screen the Film Somewhere – Even If Only to Qualify it for Awards Consideration).
Interestingly Enough, Netflix Also Developed Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bridewhoh is a remake of Bride of Frankensteinbut then passed It over to Warner Bros. The Studio Will Release It Next March – in theaters.