After Saltburn and Priscilla, Jacob Ellord takes on a disgusting role on Netflix!

This is one of the most interesting Netflix projects. Guillermo del Toro is currently working on a new adaptation of Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein. The cast expanded over the months, with Oscar Isaac as the mad scientist and Andrew Garfield as the creature returned from the dead. But Spider-Man’s former interpreter had to give up his place.

Deadline In fact, it is revealed that Garfield had to withdraw from the project due to a conflict of interest after the actors and writers went on strike. In the end, it was Jacob Ellord who was chosen to play the monster. The actor is currently in the movies and streaming news in our theaters Priscilla, where he plays Elvis and Saltburn on Prime Video.

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Elord isn’t his first collaboration with Netflix. It’s also through this platform that the 26-year-old actor exploded into the public eye a few years ago thanks to The Kissing Booth trilogy (films he denies today).

After a few years, the actress has a series of tempting projects and shows that she is not just a pretty face.

The rest of the Frankenstein cast is particularly interesting: in addition to Isaac and Elorde, we also find Mia Goth, Christoph Waltz, Felix Kammerer (nothing new in the West), Lars Mikkelsen, David Bradley (Harry Potter) and Christian Conway. (sweet tooth).

This new Del Toro movie is set to begin filming in 2024 and is slated for release in 2025. Netflix released the official content a few months ago. If the screenplay is to be faithful to the novel, the director adds his own touch and turns it into an amazing fantasy story:

Eastern Europe, 19th century. Dr. Pretorius goes in search of Frankenstein, who was believed to have died in a fire forty years ago. Its purpose is to continue the experiments of the creator of the monster, Dr. Frankenstein.