Another notable adaptation that del Toro dreamed of making was for Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.
Often in the past, Guillermo del Toro has cited the original Frankenstein novel as one of the seminal influences on his filmmaking career, and his desire to make a trilogy of films based on the book.
“[M]y first thought is that I’m not the big, broad, big-boned lumbering Frankenstein that you have in mind.
According to Doug Jones, the makeup that would have been used to create his version of the Monster would have been “hauntingly beautiful”.