{"id":2466,"date":"2025-08-30T20:38:34","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T20:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesofpakistan.tv\/?p=2466"},"modified":"2025-08-30T20:38:34","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T20:38:34","slug":"frankenstein-director-gets-honest-about-its-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesofpakistan.tv\/index.php\/2025\/08\/30\/frankenstein-director-gets-honest-about-its-making\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Frankenstein&#8217; director gets honest about its making"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Frankenstein<\/i>\u00a0is close to Guillermo del Toro&#8217;s heart, it appears, as the director reveals the length he went to make the movie.<\/p>\n<p>As the movie has wrapped up filming and is set to be released on Netflix, the filmmaker, in a light-hearted manner, joked, \u201cI\u2019m in postpartum depression.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s worth pointing out that there had been versions previously made of Mary Shelley\u2019s novel.<\/p>\n<p>But as far as Guillermo\u2019s take is concerned, he himself shared his fondness for the story.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been following the creature since I was kid. I waited for the movie to be done in the right conditions,\u201d the filmmaker said in a press conference about the forthcoming movie.<\/p>\n<p>He continued, \u201cBoth creatively in terms of achieving the scope to make it different, and to make it at a scale that you could reconstruct the whole world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Touching on the overview of his vision of the movie, Guillermo, however, dismissed the notion the story somewhat gives a nod to the potential dangers AI poses \u2014 given the movie is about a scientist\u2019s misuse of technology.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We live in a time of terror and intimidation, certainly the movie tries to show imperfect characters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd the right we have to remain imperfect, and the right we have to understand each other under the most oppressive circumstances,&#8221; he said, remarking, \u201cI\u2019m not afraid of artificial intelligence. I\u2019m afraid of natural stupidity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of landing on Netflix on Nov 7,<i>\u00a0Frankenstein<\/i>\u00a0will get a limited release in cinemas on October 17.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frankenstein\u00a0is close to Guillermo del Toro&#8217;s heart, it appears, as the director reveals the length he went to make the movie. As the movie has wrapped up filming and is set to be released on Netflix, the filmmaker, in a light-hearted manner, joked, \u201cI\u2019m in postpartum depression.\u201d It\u2019s worth pointing out that there had been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[149,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-latest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesofpakistan.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesofpakistan.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesofpakistan.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesofpakistan.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesofpakistan.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/timesofpakistan.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2468,"href":"https:\/\/timesofpakistan.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2466\/revisions\/2468"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesofpakistan.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesofpakistan.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesofpakistan.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesofpakistan.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}