Fresh from having his bathwater drunk in “Saltburn,” Jacob Elordi may have a new gig.
Sources say that Elordi is taking over the role of the Frankenstein monster from Andrew Garfield in a new “Frankenstein” movie for Netflix.
Guillermo del Toro had already announced the film co-starring Oscar Isaac as the doctor — named Pretorious — who tracks down the monster who was believed to have died in a fire 40 years earlier. (So this won’t be ‘Young’ Frankenstein.) Two time Oscar winner Christoph Waltz and Mia Goth co-star.
Garfield is out due to scheduling conflicts. He has a lot of back-to-back projects including playing scientist Carl Sagan.
del Toro told Collider website back in the fall:
“I’m doing Frankenstein. We’re working on it, we start shooting on it in February. It’s a movie I’ve been wanting to do for 50 years since I saw the first Frankenstein and I had an epiphany and is basically a movie that requires a lot of growth and a lot of tools that I couldn’t have done 10 years ago, 20 years ago and now I’m brave or crazy enough or something and we’re going to tackle it.”
Elordi is hot hot hot right now after “Priscilla” and “Saltburn” launched him out of HBO’s “Euphoria.” (If and when “Euphoria” ever returns, they may have to feature a new, younger crowd now that Elordi, Zendaya, and Sydney Sweeney have flown the coop.)
So will Jacob Elordi do the Monster Mash this year? Seems like it.
