Jacob Elordi and Kit Harington will both play Frankenstein's monster in different movies

Sometime soon, we may have a battle of the prominent foreheads. A couple years ago, we learned that Kit Harington, who played Jon Snow on Game of Thrones, was going to play Frankenstein's monster — classically depicted as big, hulking with bolts in his neck — in Mary's Monster, a movie about the life of Frankenstein author Mary Shelley. As far as we can tell, this version of the Monster will appear inside Mary's head as she tries her iconic novel. After watching Jon Snow brood for eight seasons on Game of Thrones, we can picture Harington in the role.

It's true that we haven't heard much about Mary's Monster since then; perhaps it was put off when the actors and writers strikes disrupted much of Hollywood in 2023. But maybe this news can get it going again: director Guillermo del Toro, the guy behind great movies like Pan's Labyrinth and The Shape of Water, is making a new Netflix movie simply called Frankenstein, an adaptation of Mary Shelley's novel rather than the story behind it. At first, Frankenstein's monster was going to be played by Andrew Garfield, but according to Deadline he had to drop out due to scheduling conflicts. Replacing him is 26-year-old Australian actor Jacob Elordi, who rose to prominence in The Kissing Booth film trilogy on Netflix, as Nate Jacobs in the HBO series Euphoria, and recently in the psychological thriller Saltburn on Amazon.

Elordi even hosted Saturday Night Live, so you know his career is hot right now (Harington hosted in 2019, just ahead of the premiere of the final season of Game of Thrones). Neither Frankenstein nor Mary's Monster have release dates right now, but it would be funny if the two came out around the same time.

Who would play the better tormented monstrosity? Who has the more prominent brow? Who can better curse man's hubris that he would make such a hideous creation? Hopefully, now that del Toro's Frankenstein movie has some heat on it, we'll get to find out.

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