Image Credit: Ken Woroner / Netflix He's alive! Leave it to Guillermo del Toro to bring back Frankenstein in a new, eerily creative way. Coming to Netflix in late 2025, the new Frankenstein movie has a star-studded cast, and it's based directly on author Mary Shelley's 1818 novel of the same name. "The most important figure from English legacy is, incredibly, for me, a teenager by the name of Mary Shelley, and she has remained a figure as important in my life as if she were family," Guillermo said, according to Netflix's Tudum.