Guillermo del Toro believes his film adaptation of Frankenstein requires a stylized, elevated, and operatic language that reflects the cadence and style of the 1800s.

“the language of the movie has to be a little more stylized and and and elevated or oporatic or uh there are conscious choices that that require a lot of work when you're writing dialogue given that you're trying to achieve um this uh sort of Shellyleyesque pto as you said.”