Del Toro Announces Fury and The Buried Giant with Oscar Isaac at TIFF

Guillermo del Toro used the North American premiere of his new Frankenstein at the Toronto International Film Festival on Sunday to lay out the film's ambitions and to announce two new projects with longtime collaborator Oscar Isaac: a live action thriller called Fury and a stop motion adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro's novel The Buried Giant. Del Toro also confirmed the theatrical and streaming rollout for Frankenstein, which opens in select theaters October 17 and begins streaming November 7.

Del Toro said his goal with Frankenstein was to recapture the shock and wonder of encountering Mary Shelley's novel before its characters became entrenched cultural icons. He told the TIFF audience that he originally imagined the story as two films, split between the doctor and the creature, but opted instead for a hinge in the middle that would make the narrative more surprising. The film had its world premiere last month at the Venice Film Festival and stars Oscar Isaac as Viktor Frankenstein, Jacob Elordi as the creature, with Mia Goth and Christoph Waltz in supporting roles.

Isaac described his approach to Viktor as theatrical and exuberant. In a recent interview he said the doctor treats...