The first trailer for Victor Frankenstein is here! James McAvoy stars as Frankenstein, with Daniel Radclffe as Igor.
Update: The official U.S. trailer for Victor Frankenstein has been added below.
Unlike the international trailer which is very dark, this one is a lot more light-hearted and quirky, giving us strong Sherlock Holmes vibes:
We wonder which trailer best represents the tone of the movie, since they’re so different!
Original story:
Fox is taking on Mary Shelley’s iconic Frankenstein’s Monster, with the Paul McGuigan-directed Victor Frankenstein.
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The movie re-imagines the story from the cripple Igor (Daniel Radcliffe)’s perspective, showing how he first befriended Victor Von Frankenstein (James McAvoy), and helped him carry out terrifying scientific experiments — including, famously, re-animating the corpse which would come to be known as Frankenstein’s Monster.
Check out the first official trailer below, narrated by Radcliffe’s Igor:
“I dream of a world where hope replaces fear,” Victor Frankenstein proclaims in the edgy trailer.
We see him try to heal the crippled Igor, who goes on to become his assistant… and together, they create something which is most definitely not the monster we know and love, but more like some kind of zombie monkey:
But Professor X and Harry Potter’s beautiful friendship was never meant to last. Victor meets Andrew Scott’s Roderick Turpin and flirts with the idea of creating an army, at which point Igor begins to question his allegiance to his friend and savior.
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The official synopsis for the movie reads:
“Told from Igor’s perspective, we see the troubled young assistant’s dark origins, his redemptive friendship with the young medical student Viktor Von Frankenstein, and become eyewitnesses to the emergence of how Frankenstein became the man — and the legend — we know today.”
Victor Frankenstein also stars Jessica Brown Findlay, Freddie Fox, and the Sherlock trifecta of Andrew Scott, Louise Brealey, and Mark Gatiss.
The movie hits theaters on November 25, 2015.