{"id":2225743,"date":"2026-01-07T14:27:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T14:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2225743"},"modified":"2026-01-07T14:27:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T14:27:21","slug":"guillermo-del-toro-and-jacob-elordi-on-why-frankenstein-feels-autobiographical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/guillermo-del-toro-and-jacob-elordi-on-why-frankenstein-feels-autobiographical\/","title":{"rendered":"Guillermo del Toro and Jacob Elordi on Why \u2018Frankenstein\u2019 Feels Autobiographical"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Guillermo del Toro<\/a> first read Mary Shelley<\/a>\u2019s \u201cFrankenstein<\/a>\u201d when he was 11, which was three years after he started making movies with his father\u2019s Super 8 camera. The book and the passion for filmmaking have been mainstays in his life ever since, culminating in a long-delayed but inevitable rendezvous in his new movie \u201cFrankenstein<\/a>.\u201d The film mixes Shelley\u2019s original with imagery inspired by James Whale<\/a>\u2019s iconic 1930s movies \u201cFrankenstein<\/a>\u201d and \u201cThe Bride of Frankenstein,\u201d along with personal touches from a career spent exploring horror and other genres in movies like \u201cCronos<\/a>,\u201d \u201cHellboy<\/a>,\u201d \u201cNightmare Alley<\/a>\u201d and the Oscar-winning \u201cPan\u2019s Labyrinth<\/a>,\u201d \u201cPinocchio<\/a>\u201d and \u201cThe Shape of Water<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Guillermo del Toro first read Mary Shelley\u2019s \u201cFrankenstein\u201d when he was 11, which was three years after he started making movies with his father\u2019s Super 8 camera. The book and the passion for filmmaking have been mainstays in his life ever since, culminating in a long-delayed but inevitable rendezvous in his new movie \u201cFrankenstein.\u201d The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2225744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2225743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Guillermo-del-Toro-and-Jacob-Elordi-on-Why-\u2018Frankenstein-Feels.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2225743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2225743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2225743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2225745,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2225743\/revisions\/2225745"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2225744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2225743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2225743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2225743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}