“I’m not doing ‘Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein’,” the filmmaker said in a recent chat with Coming Soon. “I’m doing an adventure story that involves the creature. I cannot say much, but it’s not the central creation story, I’m not worried about that. The fact is I’ve been dreaming of doing a ‘Frankenstein’ movie since I was a child. The one thing I can promise is, compared to Kenneth Branagh, I will not appear shirtless in the movie!”
Sorry, ladies, you’ll just have to wait for some other future project to check out what a shirtless del Toro can do for you. Of course there’s nothing even close to a start date for this project, but I’m sure this s not the last you’ll hear about it between now and 2011, when it might begin pre-production, if we’re lucky.