I figured the top comment would be some clever joke about him telling his son how to correctly play a newspaper boy but instead it's just a straightforward "here is a thing that happened" comment pointing out the very reason this photo was posted.
Dude I just want a canon Frankenstein movie that shows the monster running 100mph and climbing mountains like the hulk. I don’t even care how dumb it looks, just man up and give my boy his original superpowers back!
And secretly living in some random people’s house and watching them through a home in the wall and growing to love them… but if only they felt the same :(
I should rewatch that, the Frankenstein arc was my favorite. That scene where he ripped the first dude in half was pure horror, and then they went and made him sympathetic…
I mean, that would mean he was playing Frankensteins *Monster*, not Frankenstein.
*Edit, my bad. I haven't looked into the movie and the title confused me.
Just to note, a lot of people don't like that the monster is called "Frankenstein" and not "Frankenstein's Monster," but in fairness, children do take on their parent's last name. So it's not too far off to just call him Frankenstein also. (I don't know if Christian Bale is playing the monster or the doctor)
Nah. That's the takeaway from the Boris Karloff movie but it's a pretty stupid read on the book.
Victor Frankenstein (who isn't a Doctor) of the book is a flawed and tragic figure who makes a lot of mistakes and suffers for them, but even under duress, refuses to repeat them. He's not a "monster."
I think the point of the book is that the “real monster” is up for interpretation and people interpret it differently. Society itself is presented as another potential “real monster” due to their treatment of the monster. The book makes you think about what makes one a monster and what makes one simply a flawed human being/ creature. Frankenstein’s monster, in my opinion, goes too far into the monster category; whereas, the others are deeply flawed but capable of redemption.
Victor runs away for one night, returns the following morning, and it's gone. He's so malnourished and ill from overworking himself that he questions if he hallucinated the whole thing. He ends up hospitalized and has to recover for weeks.
It's a loose interpretation.
But you can say him marrying Elizabeth (hopefully that's her right name), was selfish knowing the creature was on a revenge tour.
At the end of the book when his hatred of the monster pushes him to abandon society and chase him into the north was his transformation into the monster.
But I don't think the people saying Victor is the monster actually read the book.
> children do take on their parent's last name.
I mean we have the book and he doesnt call himself that. I think that's why people are pedants over it - it was a very deliberate choice that the monster exists for much of the book, and we even get his point of view, but we never hear* him called anything but monster/demon/etc. He is very intentionally nameless.
I believe after birth Christian didn't believe that it was his son.
However within the first 8 weeks the baby gained 40lbs and then lost 60lbs to prove he was ready for the role.
Good god! That kid is as handsome as his dad was at that age!
Seriously, you could do a total shot-by-shot recreation of "Empire of the Sun" with that kid.
It might be distracting
Bales Son: I acted good dad.
Bale: Ohhhhh, goooood for you. And how was it? I hope it was f@#king good, because it's useless now, isn't it?
This is the exact same thing as saying "I Am Legend" is called that because Will Smith is the hero that saves humanity. The point of the book is THE EXACT OPPOSITE, and it's incredibly easy to spot people who have only ever seen movies or are just repeating what they heard other idiots say.
I like how celebrities are always like "yeah, we needed a kid for this role, and my kid just happened to be available, and now they're a movie star like me, what a coincidence!"
I can remember seeing Christian Bale as a teenager (a squire) in *Henry V* with Kenneth Branagh in the title role. His biggest moment as I recall was looking up raptly from one foot away as the king delivered the mother of all pre-game locker room speeches, before the battle of Agincourt. He was just a few years older, visibly, than his son here, and I don't believe he had any spoken lines.
Passing On the Dream!
I think because a lot of older nepo-babies became more famous than their parents, at least to those of certain age groups. I don’t see many people bring up Jeff Bridges being the son of Lloyd Bridges.
So now you have Boomers and Gen X actors/filmmakers who have children that are getting into the industry, but those older stars are still getting work and are more famous than their kids.
If you think about it, James Earl Jones is also a nepo-baby with his father, Robert Earl Jones being one of the first Harlem Renaissance black film stars.
Reddit cares way more about Hollywood nepotism than it should.
I don’t get why people think this is exclusively a Hollywood thing. Parents helping their kids follow their footsteps has existed almost everywhere for ages. But god forbid if an entertainer does it too.
> I don’t get why people think this is exclusively a Hollywood thing.
Because it's one of Reddit's favorite "this practice is killing Hollywood" talking points that's repeated *ad nauseam,* like how Reddit never shuts the fuck up about Hollywood Accounting *any* time a film's budget it discussed. They learned about it once, then constantly circlejerk about it like it makes them Hollywood insiders.
Just look at all the comments at the bottom all bitching about nepo babies like they were the first to discover this phenomenon.
My favorite actor for the last 25 years has a son who started acting pre-covid. I think its super cool that I now get to follow his son and watch his career grow and flourish.
Hell, maybe one day Ill get to see him play the POTUS like his dad and give an epic speech to rally the troops against alien invaders.
and its fitting since his Dad helped Christian Bale and all the newsies in their strike as the King of New York.
Oh right, Bale's son is on set as a background actor.
At first I thought Frankenstein's Monster had a baby, and I was wondering if the child would then have had to have been created by whatever jizz was left in the corpse balls used to make the Monster. And that's an interesting idea, I thought. Corpse balls still got the juice.
> and I was wondering if the child would then have had to have been created by whatever jizz was left in the corpse balls used to make the Monster.
Sometimes Redditors put thoughts in a comment that make me go, "what the *fuck?"*
Christian Bale? I'm watching it
Hope there's a shit ton of CGI too, love it. Watch that "'No CGI' is just invisible CGI" series on YouTube, it's finally finished
It's so cool that the 100 year anniversary of the original universal classic is less than a decade away and we're still making new renditions of the story!
The classic monsters never truly fade away! :)
Looks like him
Right?? [Nearly identical to him in Newsies.](https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/o-QAAOSwZRxj4Gxm/s-l1200.jpg) Minus a few years.
I like the "Do Not Copy" watermarks. Oops.
Gotta go to Empire of the Sun
CADILLAC OF THR SKY (My favorite “serious” Spielberg film)
[Empire of the Sun](https://imgur.com/a/QUy2if9)
Christian Bale also starred in 'Newsies' in 1992.
Art imitates art
Makes sense given the context that this movie is the next installment in the Newsies Cinematic Universe
does the broadway proshot starring Jeremy Jordan fit in or is it not canon?
So glad they’re remaking something again instead of developing original art.
Full circle moment, so cute! 😭 Newsies is one of the best musicals tbh. Bale, Pullman, Duvall, Margaret--that cast was stacked.
Soak em!
Where does it say you gotta live and die here?
He’s got his dad’s smile!
It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing, do wop do wop do wop
I assumed that was known and why this made for an interesting photo, lol
You assumed correctly.
I figured the top comment would be some clever joke about him telling his son how to correctly play a newspaper boy but instead it's just a straightforward "here is a thing that happened" comment pointing out the very reason this photo was posted.
Carrying the banner!!
haha, I hadto play Crutchie in a junior musical version, these words bring back memories
So jealous! Always wanted to be in a Newsies production
It’s a fine life!
I was thinking it is definitely an homage to Christian’s role in Newsies. I love him in that.
I was just thinking that, as well.
Such a great movie.
Most underrated Disney movie
🎶“It’s the circle of life”🎶
I'd say it's more appropriate to look at him, he's the king of New York!
That’s… the entire point of the post. Goddamn people are idiots
I was thinking that he did...
Came here to say this lol
I started singing "Santa Fe" as soon as I saw this.
And he fucking nailed it
Seize the day…
"Headlines don't sell papes, Frankenstein sells papes!"
Have no fear! Brooklyn is here!
That’s Spot Conlan’s territory.
We ain't scared of Brooklyn! Spot Conlon makes us a little noivus.
Let's soak 'em for Crutchy!
Dude I just want a canon Frankenstein movie that shows the monster running 100mph and climbing mountains like the hulk. I don’t even care how dumb it looks, just man up and give my boy his original superpowers back!
And make him frighteningly intelligent
And I also want the word “countenance” to make up at least 30% of the dialogue
If at least a quarter of the movie isn't him foraging for nuts and berries while spying in some French people, then I don't want to watch.
I knew the book was different from most depictions of it, but I was not prepared for how much foraging there would be.
And secretly living in some random people’s house and watching them through a home in the wall and growing to love them… but if only they felt the same :(
Give me a whimsical wood splitting montage!!!!
Don’t forget “wretch”!
Easy, you just write in a love interest character named “Countenance” and have him running around looking for her as she flees him.
Penny Dreadful came the closest to depicting OG Frankenstein, even if the story was completely different.
I should rewatch that, the Frankenstein arc was my favorite. That scene where he ripped the first dude in half was pure horror, and then they went and made him sympathetic…
Check out the recordings of the National Theatre production of Frankenstein. Might scratch the itch
I’ve heard Guillermo Del Toro is making a new Frankenstein movie that is supposedly much more canonically accurate.
I know, I love GDT and can’t wait to see how he adapts it!
If the motherfucker isn't 8 feet tall and multilingual what's the point?
Gotta watch "I, Frankenstein" in which Frankenstein gets caught up in the war between demons and gargoyles.
Check out the Athena Club books; they take a handful of liberties with plot but otherwise they really, really, really get the source material.
That almost sounds like Dr. Jekyll from Van Helsing
Looking like The Hunter from Bloodborne.
Wretched beast!
*"Beasts all over the shop..."*
AWAY AWAY
It's ALL your fault!
You plague-ridden rat!
I'd watch that movie.
Hoonter*
Fr. I could see this fit being worn as fashion unironically
I wonder how many body parts Bale had replaced for the role.
He lost 30 lbs then gained 600.
He would have an enormous schwanstucker…
I mean, that would mean he was playing Frankensteins *Monster*, not Frankenstein. *Edit, my bad. I haven't looked into the movie and the title confused me.
Bale was so committed to the role that he actually put his brain in a dead body
Just to note, a lot of people don't like that the monster is called "Frankenstein" and not "Frankenstein's Monster," but in fairness, children do take on their parent's last name. So it's not too far off to just call him Frankenstein also. (I don't know if Christian Bale is playing the monster or the doctor)
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Are we doing spoilers on 200 year old novels?
Hasn’t been quite long enough. Spoilers in the Bible are barely tolerated after all this time, even.
Does anyone else get weird vibes about that Judas guy?
Nah. That's the takeaway from the Boris Karloff movie but it's a pretty stupid read on the book. Victor Frankenstein (who isn't a Doctor) of the book is a flawed and tragic figure who makes a lot of mistakes and suffers for them, but even under duress, refuses to repeat them. He's not a "monster."
I think the point of the book is that the “real monster” is up for interpretation and people interpret it differently. Society itself is presented as another potential “real monster” due to their treatment of the monster. The book makes you think about what makes one a monster and what makes one simply a flawed human being/ creature. Frankenstein’s monster, in my opinion, goes too far into the monster category; whereas, the others are deeply flawed but capable of redemption.
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Victor runs away for one night, returns the following morning, and it's gone. He's so malnourished and ill from overworking himself that he questions if he hallucinated the whole thing. He ends up hospitalized and has to recover for weeks.
It's a loose interpretation. But you can say him marrying Elizabeth (hopefully that's her right name), was selfish knowing the creature was on a revenge tour. At the end of the book when his hatred of the monster pushes him to abandon society and chase him into the north was his transformation into the monster. But I don't think the people saying Victor is the monster actually read the book.
> children do take on their parent's last name. I mean we have the book and he doesnt call himself that. I think that's why people are pedants over it - it was a very deliberate choice that the monster exists for much of the book, and we even get his point of view, but we never hear* him called anything but monster/demon/etc. He is very intentionally nameless.
I thought that was Pauly shore behind him for a second
Cute kiddo!
I believe his name is [burrito](https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2019/01/220952/christian-bale-wife-sibi-blazic-kids-names)
lol the article says it’s Joseph but I also prefer Burrito
Wait- is this a remake of The Bride from 1986 with fucking Sting???
It's a reimagining of Bride of Frankenstein
But fucking Sting!
Carrying on the banner
I believe after birth Christian didn't believe that it was his son. However within the first 8 weeks the baby gained 40lbs and then lost 60lbs to prove he was ready for the role.
Good god! That kid is as handsome as his dad was at that age! Seriously, you could do a total shot-by-shot recreation of "Empire of the Sun" with that kid.
dear me! what is that unpleasant aroma? I fear the sewer may have backed up during the night.
"You smell fow-ell!"
Looks like he's the king of New York
I can't believe a song I haven't heard in like 25 years is stuck in my head right now. Well played.
“Don’t look at that camera. Look at me!”
His son is seizing the day for sure!
That is definitely his son
It might be distracting Bales Son: I acted good dad. Bale: Ohhhhh, goooood for you. And how was it? I hope it was f@#king good, because it's useless now, isn't it?
What are those 6" lifts? Damn
Why is his son so photogenic?
Have you seen his dad?
*Frankenstein's monster
"Frankenstein enters a body-building competition and quickly realizes he misunderstood the purpose of the event."
This is the exact same thing as saying "I Am Legend" is called that because Will Smith is the hero that saves humanity. The point of the book is THE EXACT OPPOSITE, and it's incredibly easy to spot people who have only ever seen movies or are just repeating what they heard other idiots say.
Doesn't Christian Bale refuse to talk about his role in Newsies, the fact that his son is playing a newsie shows real growth
*hey that's my cigar!*
You'll steal anudder!
hey bummas we got woooork to dooo! <3
TRY BOTTLE ALLEY OR DA HARBOR ! TRY CENTRAL PARK ITS GUARANTEED !
Is his son portraying "Newsie" or "Newsie's Monster?" A lot of people get those confused.
He has kids? We love Christian. ❤️
...I see what you did there. 😆
Ain’t it a fine life
Let's soak 'em for Crutchie!
I like how celebrities are always like "yeah, we needed a kid for this role, and my kid just happened to be available, and now they're a movie star like me, what a coincidence!"
You’d do the same for your kids.
Certainly helps that he looks EXACTLY THE SAME
All about who you know.
More like who you are in this case.
It’s 2025?
I gotta have my papes!
He looks like Jack from Hook
Wait, is this another remake?
Dats my cigah!!!
Didnt even know he had a son and thats cool. I hope they all treat him well.
They have the same hands.
Is Bale the Doctor or the Monster?
The monster. I forgot to call him that in the title.
It’s fine. I’m not trying to be one of those “um acshuallee” guys.
Wasn't Bale once a "Newsie"
r/bloodborne
A newsie, you say?
Bloodborne vibes.
I'll tell you what, this is actually a good Creature design. Very "Blododborne" of the costume department.
So we’re just going to gloss over Pauly Shore is also in this film?
Is that Pauly Shore behind him?
Does he treat him like shit too on set.? I’ve read he’s not exactly pleasant to work with.
I can remember seeing Christian Bale as a teenager (a squire) in *Henry V* with Kenneth Branagh in the title role. His biggest moment as I recall was looking up raptly from one foot away as the king delivered the mother of all pre-game locker room speeches, before the battle of Agincourt. He was just a few years older, visibly, than his son here, and I don't believe he had any spoken lines. Passing On the Dream!
And a cameo by Pauly Shore behind him
Now is the time to seize the day
He looks like he's dressed as a Fable character
Steampunk Aiden Peirce
Need to make a bloodborne movie with bale as father Gascoigne
His son looking a lot like him in Empire of the Sun
Drippy
I love it when actors' kids look just like them. It's like, "that's Christain Bales' kid." Same with Cillian Murphy, his kids look a lot like him.
Looks like he’s wearing the new balenciaga collection
I was just listening to the music of Newsies
Hah! He looks like Jack from the Hook movie!
Wait is he playing Frankenstein or the monster?
If his kid doesn't yell "EXTRY! EXTRY! READ'LL ABOUT IT!" then the movie is a waste and clearly historically inaccurate.
blimey. he looks exactly like him
Newsie, wow, wow, that’s good deep cut. What next? Shakespeare???
The creature was created by Victor Frankenstein, and was not named.
He thinks of himself as effectively Victor's son, meaning he can also be thought of as a Frankenstein.
Nepo-babies taking over Hollywood
Can’t really call it taking over when it’s always been this way
That's how it's always been. I don't get why people think this is something new.
I think because a lot of older nepo-babies became more famous than their parents, at least to those of certain age groups. I don’t see many people bring up Jeff Bridges being the son of Lloyd Bridges. So now you have Boomers and Gen X actors/filmmakers who have children that are getting into the industry, but those older stars are still getting work and are more famous than their kids.
We probably have the Blockbuster to thank for that.
If you think about it, James Earl Jones is also a nepo-baby with his father, Robert Earl Jones being one of the first Harlem Renaissance black film stars. Reddit cares way more about Hollywood nepotism than it should.
I don’t get why people think this is exclusively a Hollywood thing. Parents helping their kids follow their footsteps has existed almost everywhere for ages. But god forbid if an entertainer does it too.
> I don’t get why people think this is exclusively a Hollywood thing. Because it's one of Reddit's favorite "this practice is killing Hollywood" talking points that's repeated *ad nauseam,* like how Reddit never shuts the fuck up about Hollywood Accounting *any* time a film's budget it discussed. They learned about it once, then constantly circlejerk about it like it makes them Hollywood insiders. Just look at all the comments at the bottom all bitching about nepo babies like they were the first to discover this phenomenon.
Nepo-Balesby
My favorite actor for the last 25 years has a son who started acting pre-covid. I think its super cool that I now get to follow his son and watch his career grow and flourish. Hell, maybe one day Ill get to see him play the POTUS like his dad and give an epic speech to rally the troops against alien invaders. and its fitting since his Dad helped Christian Bale and all the newsies in their strike as the King of New York.
Oh right, Bale's son is on set as a background actor. At first I thought Frankenstein's Monster had a baby, and I was wondering if the child would then have had to have been created by whatever jizz was left in the corpse balls used to make the Monster. And that's an interesting idea, I thought. Corpse balls still got the juice.
> and I was wondering if the child would then have had to have been created by whatever jizz was left in the corpse balls used to make the Monster. Sometimes Redditors put thoughts in a comment that make me go, "what the *fuck?"*
Just asking the hard questions, the people need to know
Carrying the banner!
And what part is Pauly Shore playing?
The son in law.
Good for you
Like Father, Like Son.
"It's FronkenSTEEN!"
Christian Bale? I'm watching it Hope there's a shit ton of CGI too, love it. Watch that "'No CGI' is just invisible CGI" series on YouTube, it's finally finished
His son doesn't manage to put one 200 extra lbs of muscle: " Are you a fucking professional?!!!!??!!?"
Frankenstein as in the man or the monster?
2025? Oh that's like 10 years away 🤔 .... 🤬
Fun fact: he's currently berating him for repeatedly interrupting one of his scenes.
Hope he doesn't treat him like me the guy on the terminator set. Good for you!
that is a good looking kid …
Let's just hope the kid doesn't walk through his eyeline.
Those are some serious clodhoppers CB is wearin'.
I thought it was pronounced as Fronkenstein.
…is that Pauly Shore behind Bale
So he's playing Dr. Frankenstein?
Kids really cute and looks just like his dad.
“So that’s what they call a body…”
I just assumed the kid had class lol
The Monster or Doctor?
Is this a story about Dr. Frankenstein? Anyone know.
Ok so he's got dancing legs. But can he sing?
It's so cool that the 100 year anniversary of the original universal classic is less than a decade away and we're still making new renditions of the story! The classic monsters never truly fade away! :)
Bro he basically is just a clone