Del Toro cut a seven-minute scene from Frankenstein after James Cameron's note

Movieweb reports that Guillermo del Toro removed a roughly seven-minute sequence from the final cut of his Mary Shelley adaptation Frankenstein after peers screened the film, following a note from James Cameron. Del Toro told Variety at the Palm Springs International Film Festival that he shows his films to about 14–16 close filmmaker friends — including Alfonso Cuarón, Alejandro Iñárritu, Jim Cameron, Rian Johnson and Steven Spielberg — and that Cameron flagged a section as "beautiful, but you gotta take it out."

The director's longtime passion project, which he finished before passing the cut to Netflix, stars Oscar Isaac as Victor Frankenstein and Jacob Elordi as the Creature, with Christoph Waltz, Mia Goth, David Bradley and Charles Dance in supporting roles. Movieweb noted the film runs about two hours and 30 minutes.

Del Toro did not specify what was in the excised sequence. Separately, del Toro told Entertainment Weekly when the movie began streaming last November that Elordi replaced Andrew Garfield after Garfield stepped away, and Elordi has described developing the Creature's voice on set — citing a need for "a gravel" and a "Tibetan throat chant" that evolved with the character, he recounted.

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