Regrets, he has a few, Guillermo del Toro told the Toronto Film Festival on Sunday night. The good thing, though, those regrets are creative fodder for the Oscar-winning filmmaker’s next movies. “I’m 60 now. So I’ve gone from asking who I am as a father and son to regret. I’m in the regret decade. Expect a lot of regret,” the horrormeister said during a Q&a after a North American premiere of Frankenstein at the Royal Alexandra Theater in Toronto.
Speaking specifically about adapting Mary Shelley’s classic 1818 gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus — with Dr. Frankenstein played by Oscar Isaac in the adaptation and Jacob Elordi the creature he gives birth to — del Toro said he aimed to craft a story about father and son issues. Then he eventually realized his narrative included his own experiences as both a son and a father.
“I had to realize that,…
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