Guillermo del Toro Teases New Project with Oscar Isaac

Speaking at the Toronto International Film Festival where his ‘Frankenstein’ premiered, del Toro talked up the “violent” new thriller in development.

(L to R) Director Guillermo del Toro and Oscar Issac as Victor Frankenstein on the set of ‘Frankenstein’. Photo: Ken Woroner/Netflix © 2025.

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Guillermo del Toro wants to reunite with ‘Frankenstein’s Oscar Isaac.
The filmmaker is developing a new project called ‘Fury’.
It’s described as a violent thriller.

He might have one movie already headed to screens with his take on ‘Frankenstein’, but Guillermo del Toro is not a filmmaker to sit back and relax. He’s got multiple projects in development and, at the Toronto International Film Festival, announced another in development.

Frankenstein

"Only monsters play God."

RDrama Horror Science Fiction

Release Date: Oct 17, 2025

Run Time: 2 hr 29 min

Starring: Oscar Isaac, Jacob Elordi, Mia Goth

Del Toro is working on a new thriller that would star ‘Frankenstein’s Oscar Isaac that is currently titled ‘Fury’ (whether it changes names down the line because of the 2014 David Ayer tank drama remains to be seen).

‘Fury’: del Toro speaks

Guillermo del Toro poses backstage with the Oscar® for Animated Feature Film during the live ABC telecast of the 95th Oscars® at Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood on Sunday, March 12, 2023.

Here’s what del Toro had to say at a TIFF Q&A about this potential new movie:

“I’m writing a project to do with Oscar. I’m writing it right now, and it’s called ‘Fury’, and essentially it’s going back to [the] sort of thriller aspects of ‘Nightmare Alley’ — very cruel, very violent. Like ‘My Dinner with Andre’ but [with] killing people after each course.”

And here’s why del Toro said he was drawn to the project:

“Because I’m very interested in the violence we do to each other, and we do it with our minds, we do it with our souls and we do it physically. And I think it’s new questions [I’m having]; I’m 60 now, so I’ve gone from asking where I’m going and [being a] father and son to [experiencing] regret. I’m in the regret decade, so expect a lot of regret.”

What else is Guillermo del Toro working on?

(L to R) Oscar Isaac, Guillermo del Toro, and Mia Goth speak onstage Netflix TUDUM 2025: The Live Event at The Kia Forum on May 31, 2025 in Inglewood, California. Photo: Amy Sussman/Getty Images for Netflix.

In addition to this new movie, GDT is still busy with a stop-motion adaptation of ‘The Buried Giant’, which had already been announced.

Del Toro offered an update on that one:

“I am, right now, preparing a stop-motion adaptation of ‘The Buried Giant’, the Kazuo Ishiguro novel. And it is going to be an epic stop-motion that is not going to be for kids. It’s truly exploring the capacity to act, of a stop-motion project, and fuse a world the way you would do it if it was a live-action.”

When will ‘Fury’ be on screens?

With that project at such an embryonic stage, there’s no word on who would distribute it (though we would imagine Netflix will be interested following its collaboration with the director on his stop-motion ‘Pinocchio’ and the live-action ‘Frankenstein’).

Talking of the latter, it will debut in select theaters October 17th and on Netflix’s servers November 7th.