Cease me in the event you’ve heard this one earlier than. A superb scientist with an enormous laboratory and entry to corpses tries usurping God’s function as life supplier. (Thanks for not really stopping me.) The Frankenstein mythos has seemingly been tailored as many occasions as there are pages in Mary Shelley’s unique novel, with Guillermo del Toro’s darkish and emotional take set to stream by way of Netflix subscription. Now, it seems MCU vet Sebastian Stan is ready for a newly crafted take that’ll be a novel entry amongst different upcoming horror films.
This model of Frankenstein sounds prefer it might actually stand aside from each extremely trustworthy variations and from the extra radical interpretations, thanks largely to it coming from Romanian author/director Radu Jude. The filmmaker is at the moment on the promotional path for his newest characteristic, an almost three-hour model of Dracula, the place sucking on different physique elements — wink, wink — is simply as distinguished because the anticipated neck-centric bloodletting. It already feels like a Prime 5 contender for many bonkers Dracula films, so I’m hopeful Frankie enjoys a equally huge swing. (This is one assessment that addresses the zaniness.)
Jude, who is maybe finest recognized for guiding different 2021’s Unhealthy Luck Banging or Loony Porn and 2023’s Do Not Count on Too A lot From the Finish of the World, hails from Romania, the house nation not simply of Vlad Dracul, but in addition of Sebastian Stan. The duo apparently spoke beforehand about discovering the proper undertaking to collaborate on, based on THR, and Jude revealed the undertaking amidst his vampire movie’s world premiere on the Lorcana Movie Competition, saying:
I’m writing a movie now. It’s a Frankenstein movie in Romania. Frankenstein in Romania, it’s going to be referred to as.
Nothing too mysterious about that title so far as most important characters and central areas go, and it doesn’t trace at something too out of the strange. Nevertheless, this dude doesn’t ship by-the-books cinema, so count on among the most darkly comedic and absurdist moments of any Frankenstein film.
The storyline will reportedly mesh the normal legend of the misunderstood behemoth with the true-to-life previous existence of a hush-hush CIA jail that was positioned in Romania. The place is the story going to go from there? Will lifeless prisoners’ physique elements be used to create the monster? Will Victor Frankenstein be a corrupt jail warden? How excessive up the black hat ladder does this operation go?
Stan, who’d comparatively lately shaved his head for a brand new function, favored Jude’s pitch for the Frankenstein-centric story, and the director believes the actor will tackle twin roles as each Victor Frankenstein and his makeshift monster. 2024’s A Completely different Man confirmed off Stan’s performance-shifting abilities, in addition to his potential to ship a sensible efficiency beneath plentiful prosthetics. So I’ve little question he’ll convey the products irrespective of what number of characters he performs.
It’s unclear if Frankenstein in Romania might be written and filmed in time for the 2026 film schedule, because the director subsequent goals to movie a smaller-scale story a couple of Romanian lady who leaves her younger daughter to work for a household in France.
However take into account this: throughout the manufacturing of Dracula, Radu Jude and a number of other of the horror movie’s forged members concurrently filmed Kontinental ‘25, a comedy-drama about his nation’s housing disaster and middle-class struggles. That film debuted earlier in 2025 on the Berlin Movie Competition, the place its screenplay received the Silver Bear.
With Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride! additionally hitting theaters in 2026, I ponder how properly that can work paired up with Frankenstein in Romania for an offbeat horror double-feature.