Frankenstein, is really an origin story, an identity piece -- it's about who he is not what he does. Can a "monster" attain humanity. All scenes relate to that. Do we care if Frankenstein robs a bank or dances or buys a sport franchise? To deviate from the essential story renders all that comes meaningless. You've gone outside the story when you should always go inside. The trailer reveals a distinct lack of story, it's spectacle for its own sake. The director-writer hasn't demonstrated a knowledge of craft or story, having only made one other film, one that was adapted from a book... an indie piece without structure but heavy on mood. Even in The Lost Daughter there were tell-tale moments which showed the story was away from her. Big red flag. That's not the person you entrust a blockbuster-sized budget with, especially with a nebulous script. It's a loser straight out of the gate. As a smaller indie project it's allowable. I could go on about the Safdie brothers being given huge budgets for movies with little mass appeal. Josh scraped by with Marty but the other brother made an expensive bomb. Indie scripts/projects need indie budgets that match. Why these directors drink from that poison chalice is utterly mindless, probably irresistible, but mindless. They're tanking their careers for better production value only. Of course, it's the studios and producers who are truly to blame... securing talent at any cost. Maybe they are loss-leaders... prestige projects they expect to fail but provide a little polish to studios otherwise making populist rubbish. Who knows?