When you see a single frame from a Guillermo del Toro movie, you know it’s one of his. And yet, as he finally makes his Frankenstein adaptation – something of a white whale project – it seems the director envisions himself at the end of a particular era. “This movie closes the cycle,” he tells Empire in the Wicked: For Good issue. “If you look at the lineage, from Cronos to The Devil’s Backbone, to Pan’s Labyrinth to Crimson Peak to this, this is an evolution of a certain type of aesthetic, and a certain type of rhythm, and a certain type of empathy.” It’s an evolution that has maybe reached its apotheosis. “I feel like I need a change,” he admits – with the caveat that he may well change his mind.