Guillermo del Toro Helming Wind in the Willows
Guillermo del Toro (Blade II has signed on to write and is attached to direct a new live-action and CGI feature version of The Wind in the Willows for Disney, reports Variety. del Toro will pen "Willows" with Matthew Robbins, with whom he collaborated on his 1997 horror film Mimic.
The production's budget is expected to be extensive, considering the amount of special effects the project will require. The film's talking animals will likely be computer-generated. Del Toro had been involved with supervising development prior to committing to write and direct.
del Toro is in production on his long-in-the-works pet project Hellboy for a 2004 release and is also writing the epic horror pic At the Mountains of Madness for DreamWorks, based on the H.P. Lovecraft novel, which he will also direct.
Del Toro takes gander at NL's 'Carnival Row'
Source: Hollywood Reporter
Guillermo del Toro is in negotiations to develop and direct "Killing on Carnival Row," a dark fantasy for New Line Cinema. Arnold and Anne Kopelson are producing via their Kopelson Entertainment banner. Set in a mystical and dark city filled with humans, fairies and other creatures, the story centers on a police detective investigating a series of murders against the fairies. The detective becomes the prime suspect and must find the real killer to clear his name. The studio picked up "Carnival" as a spec by first-time writer Travis Beacham in November.
that sounds AWESOME.
Gawd, I hope that Del Toro doesn't resort to doing that Halo movie to secure funding for Hellboy 2. I think he's the best genre director working right now, and it would be a shame for him to go that route. Fingers crossed for Carnival Row and/or just about any project that isn't Halo.
Del Toro presses play on "Sundown" game
Mexican director Guillermo del Toro is helping to develop a video game in which players will have to survive an apocalypse that leaves a world infected with zombies and other potentially fatal horrors.
He has partnered on "Sundown" with Terminal Reality, home of the BloodRayne franchise, which originated the property and will develop the game for next-generation platforms.
Del Toro, who described himself as a lifelong avid gamer, said he did want merely to attach his name to the game.
"I believe in the next 10 years, narrative media is going to shift to a hybrid of video games and movies," he said. "This is a great opportunity for me to help be a bridge to what I believe is the future."
Players will start as a typical person on an average day. As everything goes terribly wrong, in order to survive they must learn to form alliances with various beings and to change their role as each new challenge calls for different abilities.
"We want to create a real beginning, middle and end to the game and to each set piece of the game too," said del Toro, who owns the television and movie rights. "I want to make some of the atmospheric elements in the game very, very scary."
Del Toro's directing credits include "Hellboy" and its upcoming sequel, as well as "Blade II," "Mimic" and "Cronos."
Quote from: MacGuffin on May 05, 2006, 11:25:13 AM
Del Toro's directing credits include "Hellboy" and its upcoming sequel
can you count something as a credit if it hasn't been made yet?
'Deadman' to live again on big screen
Source: Hollywood Reporter
Guillermo del Toro is teaming up with Don Murphy's Angry Films to bring cult DC Comics superhero "Deadman" to the big screen.
Del Toro is in negotiations to develop the comics-to-film adaptation, which would be produced by del Toro, Murphy and Susan Montford.
Deadman is the ghost of a circus acrobat named Boston Brand, who was murdered during a trapeze performance. His spirit was granted the power by a Hindu goddess to possess any living being in order to find his killer. In the ensuing search, Brand finds himself obliged to help others. The hero was created in 1967 by Arnold Drake and Carmine Infantino and is known for a run of issues by artist Neal Adams.
A search for writers is under way.
"I have been producing features for first- and second-timers in Spain and Latin America, and I would to do the same here," del Toro said in an interview. "If there is a window and an opportunity, I could end up directing but right now, I am only producing."
About the superhero, del Toro said: "(Deadman) has great supernatural elements and is one of the more off-kilter superheroes. What I like is that it has some of the canon of horror films but it has a quest and the heroics in the more traditional superhero roots. It's a great combination that is not very common to superheroes."
Dan Lin is overseeing for the studio. Gregory Noveck oversees for DC Comics.
Angry Films is in post on "Shoot 'Em Up," an action movie starring Clive Owen, and is one of the companies behind Michael Bay's "Transformers."
Del Toro will be at San Diego Comic-Con International talking about his upcoming fantasy film "Pan's Labyrinth," which opens Dec. 29 in North America. He is attached to direct "Hellboy 2" and "Killing on Carnival Row."
Del Toro goes small screen for deal at Fox
Source: Hollywood Reporter
Filmmaker Guillermo Del Toro is crossing over to television with an overall deal at 20th Century Fox Television.
Under the one-year deal, Del Toro, known for such sci-fi/fantasy features as "Hellboy" and "Blade II," will develop and executive produce one-hour series projects for the studio.
He plans to write or co-write a drama for the studio. He also is set to direct a one-hour pilot.
"He is the pre-eminent genre writer-director in the feature world," 20th TV president Gary Newman said of Del Toro. "When you sit in a room with him and see how wildly imaginative he is, you know you're going to get projects that are unique."
Del Toro said he has been thinking about venturing into television for the past three to five years.
"I have felt very clearly that some of the best writing and character development is happening on television," he said. "I also feel that the future of storytelling will require knowledge and practice in the video game arena and in the television cable area."
Del Toro has a strong personal connection to the TV medium dating back to his childhood in Mexico, where he said his storytelling style was shaped by watching such American series as "Night Gallery," "Kolchak: The Night Stalker" and "The Twilight Zone."
Today, his favorite TV series include ABC's "Desperate Housewives" and "Lost," Fox's "The Simpsons" and "24," FX's "Nip/Tuck" and HBO's "Deadwood."
In his own development, "I would love to do genre projects that keep the more conventional genre elements very loose," Del Toro said.
He is looking to introduce fantasy elements to such traditional series genres as police drama.
"I really think my main desire here is to learn and to be as experimental as possible," Del Toro said.
In staffing his projects, Del Toro said he would be "as diverse as possible." He said he is looking to bring on board as many Latino behind-the-camera talent as he can.
Del Toro's most recent feature, "Pan's Labyrinth," had its premiere in May at the Festival de Cannes. It is slated for release Dec. 29.
Exclusive Interview: GUILLERMO DEL TORO ON PAN'S LABYRINTH, FASCISM AND BEING A LEADER
BLADE 2 director speaks his mind about politcs, HELLBOY and inspiration
Source: iF Magazine
Cannes is the biggest public relations event in the world. You have a myriad of press coming from far places such as India and New Zealand and the usual press junketers from France, US, Spain, UK, etc. In this mad zoo one can easily forget about a picture screened; especially when you watch an average of 10 to 15 films, or portions of films a day! But once you've seen the mesmerizing and disturbing PAN'S LABYRINTH (U.S. release is in December) by director Guillermo Del Toro, you will understand why it must be digested more than once to get the full effect. iF got Del Toro to explain this labor of love that has haunted him well before he even directed the legendary CRONOS and HELLBOY.
iF MAGAZINE: It seems like all your movies start with drawings, actually I remember interviewing you for MIMIC in New York, and you showed me drawings for PAN'S LABYRINTH. What is the drawing that triggered the movie that you finally directed?
DEL TORO: Actually before any drawing, the first thing that triggered this film was my childhood when I was at my grandmother's house. At night, every night, a goat man would come out of the closet in my bedroom! This fear, these images of the "goat man" gave birth many years after to a drawing of what was to become "Pan" the main character of my new film: PAN'S LABYRINTH. Also, the paintings of Goya were an inspiration for me in terms of the tone and atmosphere I wanted for this picture. Actually, my love for drawing and painting is funny because I truly feel lately that I'm starting to lose interest with filmmaking. Especially the difficulty you face to put together films in this ever-changing economical environment. So I think that maybe, when it becomes impossible for me to direct, that I will go back to school and learn all the techniques to paint and become a painter full time.
iF: Do you believe the difficulties in financing a movie would make you give up filmmaking?
DEL TORO: Well for me, who needs more and more financing for my ever complicated pictures and tales, it is really hard to be happy about directing because you face more and more executives who tell you what to do and you need to bend your creativity to their business plan. It is so easy to castrate imagination by arguing how much a film is going to cost and not guarantee a profit. So, maybe for me it's the solution, to have my own gallery, to express my imagination in paintings, I fully control and create according to my own visions.
iF: To go back to PAN'S LABYRINTH, how affected were you by the fascism in Spain and the ruling of Franco? It seems to be the shape and core of your film?
DEL TORO: Well, even though I'm from Mexico, from Guadalajara; the ripple of Franco was felt. In the 1930's, when he did his "coup d'Etat," all the rest of Europe let Franco do what he wanted to do because they knew he was going to be allied with Hitler. So they were scared to anger these two countries that they already feared. Especially in America, they totally ignored the situation in Spain. Then the World War II started and finally people in Europe started to pay attention. But it was too late. And during that time, when some people in Spain were rebelling against Franco, the only country that helped this movement of rebellion was Mexico! Many Spaniards were able to escape and come live in Mexico. Besides, their Spanish culture is still felt today in the arts and especially in films. Many critics, writers, actors, set designers and a historian who was kind of my mentor, all of them came from Spain and established themselves in Mexico and greatly developed the film industry there.
iF: I see lots of parallels with the fascism of the 1930's and today in many places in the world, what are your thoughts about that?
DEL TORO: Well, you're right. Because fascism, as I try to say in my movie, always hides behind ideas that are beautiful. Hitler talked about the purity of the Aryan race and how he wanted to construct the perfect world with major cities inhabited by people who live like gods. And maybe that sounds very good but in order to achieve that he wanted to kill everyone who was not perfect. And it's the same with Franco.
That's why the character played by Sergio Lopez says: "I want a new Spain, a clean Spain for my son to live in." This is truly insanity speaking. What is scary is that today you hear similar "messages" by some people all over the world. I heard it recently in Spain from the mouth of some right wing guy. I think that from the moment you start to look at "them" and "us" instead of "all of us together", that's when things get f**ked up!
iF: There is also a recurring theme in all your movies about the manipulation of the soul, you should stand and fight back and never give up. Is this what is most important to you, to inspire people about fighting and not giving up?
DEL TORO: Absolutely, you should never give up in life, no matter what and how much pain you face. Actually, being raised a Catholic I have always wondered what has been the highest manifestation of the soul, what really makes us human. In every movie I make, I wonder about the human condition and how we can keep our humanity. You can see it in MIMIC or HELLBOY more than any other movies. And here too, it's about how we can stay human beings; we can keep our soul in spite of people trying to eradicate any trace of humanity on Earth. It's about having the freedom of choice and re-conquering that freedom if you lose it. The struggle of the soul is to do the things that you feel is right and not choosing what is convenient.
For example, even me as a filmmaker I struggle with my decisions. After BLADE 2 and HELLBOY, I could have made $20 million plus and get a fat check, but instead I felt that I needed to tell this story in PAN'S LABYRINTH; a story about the fight of soul to stay free by all means. With this film I didn't become rich on the outside but on the inside, there were things I had to say and I became rich emotionally. That is the essence and struggle of the soul. The essence and nature of Life is to struggle and come to peace with your inner struggle. This is a brave thing to face your choices and do the right things in life. This is why I think Ofelia is the bravest of all in this picture because she does choose to do the right thing even though her life is in danger. All the other characters compromise but Ofelia never compromises.
iF: There is another theme in this film and it's the one of family. How important is it to have a family and how hard it is to keep it together. Was it another choice, to talk about "family values?"
DEL TORO: Yes. I'm somebody who truly lives for his family, they are my blood, my inspiration and I would give everything for their health and future. I think I put my vision of what is a family in all my movies. For me a perfect family is a family that is NOT trying to be perfect. It's a family that even if its f**ked up, can accept it and deal with it. This is true for most of the families in the world. We all have issues, problems, whatever and our job is to try to deal with them in a loving way, in an understanding fashion. And it's always about trying to find a solution.
For example, in MIMIC the main female character cannot have a kid and so after all the traumas of the movie she is facing, at the end, her solution is to adopt a little boy. In BLADE 2, you have a horrible relationship with the father and the son but they are dealing with it, in a deadly way ... family is what we make of it, not necessarily what we are born with.
iF: It's the notion that in life we don't choose at the beginning of our existence but that eventually we free ourselves to the point where we become a maker of our destiny. In other words, do you think we could say that we're born with a fate, and die with a destiny?
DEL TORO: It's absolutely true! I think that the character of Ofelia in my film expresses totally what you're talking about. She is the daughter of a tailor but she is trying to become a Princess. And you're only a princess if you behave like one, you have to be noble and humble and strong and just, all at once. You need to have a pure heart. Any dream you have in life you have to fight for it and go for it, this is how you achieve your destiny and deliver yourself from your fate, that initial life that was given to you but you did not choose it. To do that right you need to do it with heart, not greed.
There is a Basque poem that says: "He was such a poor man that all he could have was money!" We live in a world, a society that makes you believe you need the big house, the big car, and the big bank account. But truly what you need is love and love you cannot buy. In my films I always try to be spiritually inspiring and this is also true with PAN'S LABYRINTH. I think this particular movie stands on its own because it's the only one that is full of love from the beginning to the end.
iF: Listening to you, I feel you're a true politician in the Greek sense of the term: working for the people. Is this what you're trying to achieve with your films, becoming a political, spiritual leader? Do you think that we can say that there is some sense of political awakening today in the film Industry with pictures like WHO KILLED THE ELECTRIC CAR and AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH?
DEL TORO: Yes, I think there is some sort of new current in Hollywood and around the world where people are tired of being lied to. Therefore more and more people will make films like the ones you just mentioned. But I'm not trying to be any type of leader, I just hope I inspire some people to stand up and fight for what they believe in. You know the essence of nature is cycle and I'm not sure we will ever stop fighting each other.
Right now we are indeed in a f**king far right, politically speaking, cycle! And it's sad. But it will change sooner or later. You will see more and more people reacting, with movies, with speeches. Now we are in a cycle where people want to say: "F**k you! F**k The Man! F**k the establishment!" so we will swing back to another cycle. It never ends. It's like the yin always fighting the yang, light always fighting darkness.
iF: In spite of this endless battle, what keeps you inspired and motivated?
DEL TORO: My children are really my only source of inspiration and stimulation. You know, when I was shooting MIMIC I was on the edge of giving it all up and my wife just said, "F**k it! Let them do this!" And I thought that I had to do it for my daughter at the time to show her what it is to be good and brave and fight for what I believe. And so I managed to finish this film and I moved on. In life you have to know how to fight in a smart way that doesn't kill but allows you to move on. Because life is not just one battle, it's several back to back to back, so you need to pace yourself, to be able to keep moving forward. My children are making me brave, concrete solid. As a human being, your children are the measure of how much you f**k up. They are the mirrors of your soul. With them you have a second chance at being good even if you were not good in the first place. So think about your children and seek inspiration through them. Family is the source of all the honors and of all the greatness.
Dauberman draws 'Deadman' gig
Writer to work with Del Toro on comic adaptation
Source: Variety
Warner Bros. has hired tyro scribe Gary Dauberman to work with director-producer Guillermo del Toro in penning the script for the bigscreen adaptation of DC Comics' "Deadman."
Project is a potential directing vehicle for del Toro, who is producing with Angry Films' Don Murphy and Murphy's partner Susan Montford.
Deadman is the ghost of a murdered circus acrobat who has the power to possess the living in order to seek out his killer, as well as to help the innocent.
Dauberman impressed "Deadman" producers with a spec script he had written for a Western zombie pic.
Del Toro's latest film, "Pan's Labyrinth," opens Dec. 29.
Angry Films' upcoming slate includes "Transformers" and "Shoot 'Em Up."
'Tarzan' on vine for Warner Bros.
Weintraub bringing character back to bigscreen
Source: Variety
Warner Bros. and producer Jerry Weintraub are bringing Tarzan back to the bigscreen.
The studio is developing a new take on the Edgar Rice Burroughs-created character. Studio is negotiating with Guillermo del Toro to direct.
John Collee, who wrote "Master and Commander: Far Side of the World" and most recently scripted the WB animated hit "Happy Feet," is negotiating to write the screenplay.
Weintraub will produce through his Jerry Weintraub Prods. banner.
In the years since Burroughs first introduced the loincloth-clad character in book form in 1914, Tarzan has headlined live action and animated films, as well as radio and TV shows.
Del Toro, who grew up reading Spanish-language translations of those books, feels that the classic themes are still compelling, and that there is new ground to cover in the Tarzan mythology by turning back to the original Burroughs prose.
"I'd love to create a new version that is still a family movie, but as edgy as I can make it," Del Toro said. "There are strong themes of survival of a defenseless child left behind in the most hostile environment."
Deals are still being worked out, but Del Toro sparked to the chance to collaborate with Collee.
"John will be writing it alone, as I'll be in production on 'Hellboy 2' and pursuing writing projects of my own," Del Toro said. "He's got a great sense of adventure and the wilderness."
Tarzan Talk
Del Toro rumbles the jungle.
While in England doing press for the BAFTAs, filmmaker Guillermo del Toro dropped a few hints about the Tarzan movie he is aiming to bring to the big screen sometime down the line.
"The idea is to try to do a version unlike any other, in the sense that Tarzan's formative years growing through the jungle are incredibly tough and brutal," del Toro said to the press, according to Film Ick.
"There's always this idyllic sense of the jungle being like a Disney set and I want to portray how this guy becomes the toughest animal in the jungle."
Taran will be produced by Jerry Weintraub for Warner Bros. John Collee (Master & Commander: The Far Side of the World) is penning the screenplay adaptation of the Edgar Rice Burroughs novel.
Del Toro previously told Variety, "I'd love to create a new version that is still a family movie, but as edgy as I can make it. ... There are strong themes of survival of a defenseless child left behind in the most hostile environment."
Del Toro is preoccupied for sometime with projects such as Hellboy II: The Golden Army and Deadman, so it could be several years before his Tarzan swings onto the silver screen.
Del Toro's Next Project Revealed?
Source: Latino Review
Guillermo Del Toro is currently in talks with comic book creator Tom Manning to adapt his graphic novel Runoff onto the big screen. The three volume series, published by Oddgod Press, is ready to release the final volume and also released a press release talking about the newest comic to film adaptation. However Latino Review contacted Manning directly to talk about his comic coming to life.
"Guillermo Del Toro, Nick Nunziata and Lloyd Levin basically contacted me a year ago and we started talking about doing this project together," says Manning. "It's been moving along in baby steps ever since, but I think that's the way of Hollywood. We haven't worked out contractual details yet, so there are quite a few hoops to jump through before we're rolling any film. I'm not sure where this would fit into Guillermo's schedule, I know he's got his fingers in a lot of projects, but I hope Runoff cuts in line once it's a go."
Manning continues, "When Guillermo, Nick and Lloyd first contacted me, Runoff chapter 3 hadn't come out. I sent them a plot summary of chapter three early on, but I still wasn't sure what they would think of the new book. The ending is a bit...shall we say...un-Hollywood, but that's the ending that was always intended. So when I sent them all preview copies of chapter three, I had my fingers crossed at how they would receive it. Thankfully they all just flipped out over it. Guillermo and Nick both were kind enough to offer to write quotes for the back page, and if I remember right they both told me it was their favorite chapter of the series. So that was a big relief. I guess whenever I am in contact with those guys I'm kind of blown away that they are radical enough to try and take Runoff to film."
Latino Review also asked Manning how he felt about the series being finally over after several years of working on the comic in different forms, "(It) took seven years to finish, so it really feels strange to have it out of my head. I always say it's like having a movie on pause in your head that gets slowly played frame by frame, so I miss daydreaming and tweaking the world of Runoff since I did for so long. For this new chapter I worked more focused than I had ever done before. I took four months off from everything and basically worked sixteen hour days, six days a week. I literally didn't leave my place for weeks at a time and went fully nocturnal. It was kind of amazing to do - but when I finished inking that last page I didn't know if I should collapse, dance, laugh or cry... it was odd. But it really does feel good to know it's actually finished. When I was selling the original 32 page issues at comic cons back around 2000 and 2001 I often wondered how I'd find the time and money to actually finish the story. If OddGod (Press) hadn't made that publishing deal with me in 2003, I don't know how I could have finished it."
Guillermo talks!
Source: JoBlo.com
JoBlo/AITH man on the scene Jason Adams just got off the set of HELLBOY 2 in Budapest and while Universal is holding my first born as assurance we don't break our embargo, we are allowed to bring you some scoops about other Guillermo del Toro projects that don't feature a giant, red man-monster. So without further ado, here's a dispatch from across the sea. Sez Mr. Adams...
-AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS: Universal has finally acquired the rights, and he's self financed designs and maquettes. No greenlight yet though, mostly cause it will be "expensive, R-rated and doesn't have a happy ending." del Toro says it would be a return to big scale, tentpole horror pictures, like ALIENS, THE SHINING and THE EXORCIST.
-Guillermo is producing Neil Gaiman's DEATH: THE HIGH COST OF LIVING, which Gaiman is also directing. Selma Blair said she really wants to play Death, but Guillermo already has someone in mind.
-Guillermo is no longer doing a movie called BORN with Jennifer Connelly. Just said it fell through.
-The project he "would kill to make" is a faithful "Miltonian tragedy" version of FRANKENSTEIN that doesn't suck wild ass like Branagh's. He mentioned reading Frank Darabont's draft and saying it was pretty much perfect. (He was quoted a few weeks back saying something about using classic Universal horror monsters along with Hellboy, but today he seemed to insinuate if that happened it would be in one of the animated films.)
-Sadly, No WIND OF THE WILLOWS and no CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON for del Toro.
-He's using his clout from PAN'S mostly to produce stuff for first time directors, and not for his own projects. He's planning on overseeing a an English remake of THE ORPHANAGE, which he just produced. If he gets who he wants to make it, he promised it would be good, but wouldn't tell us who. -If he had the freedom to choose, MOUNTAINS would be next. But from experience, he'll take what he can get and not wait five years before his next movie. He mentioned some of the screenplays he wrote that never got made: MEPHISTO'S BRIDGE, COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO. Some of these might still be made, but as part of the "first time director/del Toro producing" projects. He's already setting one up at Miramax.
-Doug Jones said he hasn't heard anything about a Silver Surfer spinoff, but that he WOULD be willing to do it (and would prefer to use his own voice this time).
Del Toro, UA redo Brit TV 'Champions'
Source: Hollywood Reporter
Director Guillermo del Toro has signed on to bring the cult British science fiction TV series "The Champions" to the big screen for United Artists.
Del Toro will write and direct the adaptation, which is in the early stages of development. He also will produce the film along with Tom Cruise and Paula Wagner's C/W Prods. UA president of production Don Granger is overseeing for the studio.
The series, which ran for 30 episodes in 1968-69, revolved around the adventures of a trio of secret government agents whose lives were saved when their plane crashed in the Himalayas and they were rescued by an advanced civilization. The civilization also bestowed them with superhuman abilities. The series originally was produced by ITC, the company behind such British shows as "The Saint," "The Prisoner" and "Thunderbirds."
Granada International, which owns the ITC library, optioned the rights to the television series to UA. Granada's Robert Green is executive producing.
This is the fifth high-profile film that has been set up at UA since Cruise and Wagner have taken its helm.
Del Toro, who saw his "Pan's Labyrinth" nominated for several Academy Awards last year, is in production on "Hellboy 2: The Golden Army." A horror thriller produced by del Toro, "The Orphanage," is set for a Dec. 28 release from Picturehouse.
Guillermo Del Toro's 3993 Details...
Source: ShockTillYouDrop.com
They're not technically tied together narratively-speaking, but Guillermo Del Toro's grim The Devil's Backbone and adult fairy tale Pan's Labyrinth are most certainly considered companion pieces. A third film to round out what Del Toro is calling a "trilogy" (beginning with the aforementioned two films), 3993, is in the early stages with The Orphanage's Sergio Sánchez writing.
"It's going to be shot in Spanish language," Sanchez tells ShockTillYouDrop.com while out on an "Orphanage" press tour. "It's also a fantasy film with the Spanish Civil War in the background. It's the two time periods where the movie takes place. It's starts in 1993 and then there's something that happened in '39 that's relevant to the story."
"Right now they're re-opening many graves from the Civil War, many people who disappeared and now enough time has past so they're re-opening [the graves] and there's a lot of people who can finally find their ancestors and stuff. So [the story] deals with that and if I tell you any more Guillermo will come and slit my tongue," he laughs.
Sanchez says a draft has been completed. When Del Toro heads to London to begin post-production on his "Hellboy" sequel later next month, Sanchez will reunite with the director to begin a polish on the script.
EXCL: Del Toro Hates!
Source: JoBlo.com
Guillermo Del Toro has set up a new movie at Universal which he will direct, entitled HATERS. The film will be based on the book 'Hater' by David Moody, author of the 'August' series. Here's the skinny: Society is rocked by a sudden increase in the number of violent assaults on individuals. Christened 'Haters' by the media, the attackers strike without warning. Their attacks are brutal, remorseless and extreme. There are no apparent links between the Haters or their victims and no obvious reason for their violence. In seconds rational, controlled people become vicious killers. Everyone - irrespective of race, gender, age, sexuality or any other imaginable difference - has the potential to become either a Hater or a victim. This is a terror which knows no boundaries. You can no longer trust anyone, no matter how well you think you know them. You can no longer trust yourself. By the end of today you could be a killer. By the end of today you could be dead. Psychos? Check. Blood? Check. Sounds like a perfect Del Toro vehicle, no? As we know, the next feast of awesome he will be serving up will be the much-anticipated (by me at least) sequel to HELLBOY; THE GOLDEN ARMY. Pretty much everything this guy does lately is way bad ass, so there's no reason to think this thing won't be.
i hate the title. del toro should skip that and just adapt one of fernando's dreams instead.
if i had to choose between one of these del toro book adaptations i would take Frankenstein. i think del toro could possibly do for that story what peter jackson did for king kong.
and then lovecraft.
Del Toro books vampire deal
'Hobbit' director to co-write trilogy of novels
Source: Variety
As if Guillermo del Toro weren't busy enough, the director has inked a publishing deal with HarperCollins imprint William Morrow to pen a trilogy of vampire thrillers with Chuck Hogan.
First book, "The Strain," hits bookstores next summer.
Story will revolve around an invasion of New York City by a vampiric virus. Series will trace the roots of the vampiric race back to its Old Testament origins.
The books will be published by HarperCollins in the U.K., and a special edition will be published simultaneously by the company's Spanish-language imprint, Rayo, in the U.S.
Del Toro is currently readying to direct New Line and MGM's "The Hobbit," to which he has committed the next five years.
He's essentially booked through 2017, attached to helm a remake of "Frankenstein," "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," and "Slaughterhouse-Five" at Universal, as well as "Drood," based on Dan Simmons' novel.
Hogan has penned the thrillers "The Standoff," "The Blood Artists" and "The Killing Moon." Warner Bros. recently picked up his book "Prince of Thieves" for Ben Affleck to helm and star.
Guillermo del Toro plots 'Pinocchio'
Producer, Henson Co. teaming for feature
Source: Variety
Guillermo del Toro's developing "Pinocchio" as a stop-motion feature with the Jim Henson Co. as a darker version of the original fairy tale.
Project will be produced by JHC co-toppers Brian Henson and Lisa Henson along with senior VP Jason Lust. Del Toro will exec produce.
Del Toro's working on the screenplay with Gris Grimley, who illustrated a 2002 version of "Pinocchio." Grimley and Adam Parrish King will co-direct the film.
Del Toro disclosed the project in an interview with the website bloodydisgusting.com and said that it would take about three years to complete.
Pinocchio first appeared in the 19th Century book "The Adventures of Pinocchio" by Carlo Collodi. Walt Disney produced the first feature version of the story with his animated "Pinocchio" in 1940.
"Pinocchio" is the latest in a long list of projects to which del Toro's attached. Top priority is New Line and MGM's "The Hobbit," the two-picture project he's committed the next five years to as director and co-writer with Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens.
He also has a three-year first-look deal with Universal, where he's setting up remakes of "Frankenstein," "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" and "Slaughterhouse-Five" and an adaptation of "Drood" and several other projects
so he made pan's labyrinth and said ' fuck it, i'll never again have original thoughts for the rest of my life' ? there's lies in what i'm saying but c'mon, we're always bitching about hollywood and the lack of ideas and this guy wants to remake book adaptations. huge yawn.
Exclusive: Cuaron Talks The Witches
Guillermo del Toro to direct Dahl redo
Source: Empire
Empire got the exclusive low down Alfonso Cuaron's involvement in The Witches, in what could be the most interesting and worthwhile re-adaptation of a classic children's book following a decent initial film, well, ever.
Although it was rumoured that Cuaron was down to direct, it seems that he will instead be producing, while legend-in-the-making Guillermo Del Toro will take the helm.
The pair were discussing the potential of adapting the much naughtier Dahl story Uncle Oswald, when the conversation turned to The Witches. Cuaron told us: "Guillermo wrote this amazing screenplay really quickly."
He also said that, "It won't be like the original Nicolas Roeg version, which was a beautiful film," because (and this is the very exciting part), del Toro plans to "do it completely in stop-motion animation." We will just have to wait and see how they could ever replace Roeg's army of cross-dressing bald-headed extras, however.
Report: Del Toro won't make another film in Mexico
Source: AP
MEXICO CITY - " Hellboy " director Guillermo del Toro says he is unlikely to make another film in Mexico because his father's kidnapping 10 years ago left him fearing for his safety, a newspaper reported Thursday.
Del Toro's father was eventually released, but the family says it later received death threats .
Del Toro said he does not feel safe directing films here because his daily routine becomes public.
"Not all of the people who participated in the kidnapping were captured," El Universal newspaper quoted him as saying.
He described his situation as a "forced exile" and said it saddens him to think he may never film again on Mexican streets.
Del Toro spoke on the red carpet of a special Mexico City showing of the film " Rudo y Cursi ," which he co-produced. He currently lives in New Zealand, where he has signed on to direct " The Hobbit ."
Yotzmit Rami, a spokeswoman for Universal Pictures , which organized del Toro's trip, said he would not be available for further comment.
Mexico has one of the highest kidnapping rates in the world. The government, however, says abductions have fallen 18 percent to about 72 a month since governors, mayors and federal officials signed a national security accord to battle crime in August.
Reliable data is hard to come by because most abductions go unreported for fear of police involvement. The nonprofit Citizens' Institute for Crime Studies estimates the real kidnapping rate is about 500 per month.
Del Toro is best known for directing the "HellBoy" movies and " Pan's Labyrinth ," which won an Oscar for best cinematography .
Mexico is all fucked up.
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New video trailer for Guillermo del Toro's vampire novel The Strain
A "trailer" has gone live for the first volume of Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan's The Strain trilogy of vampire novels, which hit bookstores on Tuesday
Here's how Amazon.com describes the first book:
"Boeing 777 arrives at JFK and is on its way across the tarmac, when it suddenly stops dead. All window shades are pulled down. All lights are out. All communication channels have gone quiet. Crews on the ground are lost for answers, but an alert goes out to the CDC. Dr. Eph Goodweather, head of their Canary project, a rapid-response team that investigates biological threats, gets the call and boards the plane. What he finds makes his blood run cold.
"In a pawnshop in Spanish Harlem, a former professor and survivor of the Holocaust named Abraham Setrakian knows something is happening. And he knows the time has come, that a war is brewing ...
"So begins a battle of mammoth proportions as the vampiric virus that has infected New York begins to spill out into the streets. Eph, who is joined by Setrakian and a motley crew of fighters, must now find a way to stop the contagion and save his city—a city that includes his wife and son—before it is too late."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssJKd9Q7muE
http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid1813626064?bctid=24409737001
Guillermo del Toro near monster-sized deal for new horror flick
Source: SciFi Wire
A monster-sized deal is in the works for the Frankenstein-esque film Splice, thanks to the Sundance Film Festival, according to Deadline.com. Two weeks after the film premiered at Sundance, producer Joel Silver's Dark Castle is in the final stages of closing a huge distribution deal, which includes a wide summer release on 3,000 screens and a marketing commitment somewhere between $25 million and $40 million.
Splice, a tale of genetic mutation gone wrong, stars Adrien Brody (King Kong) and Sarah Polley (Dawn of the Dead) as two scientists who combine human and animal DNA to create a new creature. The Cube's Vincenzo Natali directed the film, with executive producer Guillermo del Toro guiding the project for over a year.
Sundance often generates film offers, but usually at $5 million or less. While the megabucks potential for Splice is huge, the Dark Castle deal is not the first deal via Sundance that Splice has been close to having. We'll have to wait and see if it goes through.
Guillermo del Toro's Top 10 Criterions
In compiling his top ten Criterions, Cronos director Guillermo del Toro had a hell of a time limiting himself. Del Toro humorously bemoaned the "unfair, arbitrary, and sadistic top ten practice," so instead he decided on ties or rather, "thematic/authorial pairings."
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01.1 Throne of Blood - Kurosawa
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01.2 High and Low - Kurosawa
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01.3 Ran - Kurosawa
Kurosawa's being one of the essential masters is best represented by these, his most operatic, pessimistic, and visually spectacular films. Try and guess which is which. How he managed to be both exuberant and elegant at the same time will be one of life's great mysteries.
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02.1 The Seventh Seal - Bergman
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02.2 Fanny and Alexander (Theatrical version) - Bergman
Bergman as a fabulist—my favorite—is absolutely mesmerizing. These two films have the primal pulse of a children's fable told by an impossibly old and wise narrator. Fanny and Alexander is Dickens, Hans Christian Andersen, and John Calvin rolled into one. Both tales are ripe with fantastical imagery and a sharp sense of the uncanny. Also, I am often surprised at how the humor and comedic elements in The Seventh Seal seem to be overlooked in favor of its reputation as a quintessential "serious" art film.
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03.1 Beauty and the Beast - Jean Cocteau
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03.2 Eyes without a face - Georges Franju
Beauty and the Beast may be tenuous and delicate where Eyes Without a Face is overripe and pulpish, but these films are gorgeous, dark poems about fragility and horror. Both fables depend on sublime, almost ethereal, imagery to convey a sense of doom and loss: mad, fragile love clinging for dear life in a maelstrom of darkness. The clash of haunting and enchanting imagery has seldom been more powerful. Eyes Without a Face boasts an extraordinary soundtrack too!
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04.1 Great Expectations - David Lean
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04.2 Oliver Twist - David Lean
Most people remember David Lean for his big-scale epics, like Doctor Zhivago, Lawrence of Arabia, or The Bridge on the River Kwai. But here he is at his most precise and poetic. Both movies are epics of the spirit, and both are plagued by grand, utterly magical moments and settings; whether showing Oliver's mother straining and in pain, by intercutting with a flexing branch of thorns, or by lovingly lingering on Miss Havisham's decaying splendor, Lean understand the need for hyperbole in order to manage the larger-than-life Dickensian archetypes. Some of the passages in both films skate the fine line between poetry and horror.
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05.1 Time Bandits - Terry Gilliam
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05.2 Brazil - Terry Gilliam
Terry Gilliam is a living treasure, and we are squandering him foolishly with every film of his that remains unmade. Proof that our world is the poorer for this can be found in two of his masterpieces. Gilliam is a fabulist pregnant with images—exploding with them, actually—and fierce, untamed imagination. He understands that "bad taste" is the ultimate declaration of independence from the discreet charm of the bourgeoisie. He jumps with no safety net and drags us with him into a world made coherent only by his undying faith in the tale he is telling. Brazil remains one of the most important films of my life, and Time Bandits is a Roald Dahl–ian landmark to all fantasy films. Seeing Time Bandits with my youngest daughter just two weeks ago, I was delighted when she laughed and rejoiced at the moment when Kevin's parents explode into a cloud of smoke.
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06.1 Onibaba - Kaneto Shindo
(Tied with Kuroneko.) Horrors and desire, death and lust go hand in hand in Onibaba and Kuroneko, a perverse, sweaty double bill from Kaneto Shindo. I saw these two films at age ten, and they did some serious damage to my psyche. Both are perfect fables rooted in Japanese folklore but distinctly modern in their approach to violence and sexuality. As exuberant and exquisite as a netsuke carving, these atmospheric jewels show mankind trapped in a cosmically evil world. The tales seem to fit together so perfectly that they fuse into one as time goes by. Onibaba and Kuroneko make a perfect double bill for the second circle of hell.
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07.1 Spartacus - Kubrick
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07.2 Paths of glory - Kubrick
Kubrick was a fearsome intellect. His approach to filmmaking and storytelling remains as mysterious as it is compelling. The illusion of control over the medium is total. Both films speak eloquently about the scale of a man against the tide of history, and both raise the bar for every "historical" film to follow. Paths of Glory is a searing indictment of the war machine, as pertinent now as it was in its day. I suspect, however, that Kubrick was also a highly instinctive director, and that he grasped incessantly for his films. An anecdote tells us of him begging Kirk Douglas to stay in bed a few more days after an accident, because Kubrick was using the "downtime" to understand the film they were making.
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08.1 Sullivan's Travel - Preston Sturges
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08.2 Unfaithfully Yours - Preston Sturges
The candle that burns twice as bright burns half as long, as the saying goes—and Sturges's films and meteoric, puzzling career confirm this. These are masterful films full of mad energy and fireworks, but Sullivan's Travels also manages to encapsulate one of the most intimate reflections about the role of the filmmaker as entertainer. Many have attempted to mine the same field as Sturges, and all have failed. A rara avis in the landscape of film.
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09.1 Vampyr - Carl Th. Dreyer
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09.2 Häxan - Benjamin Christensen
Sheer terror and sheer poetry, but both stem from distinctive medieval traditions. Häxan is the filmic equivalent of a hellish engraving by Bruegel or a painting by Bosch. It's a strangely titillating record of sin and perversity that is as full of dread as it is of desire and atheistic conviction, and a condemnation of superstition that is morbidly in love with its subject. Vampyr is, strictly speaking, a memento mori, a stern reminder of death as the threshold of spiritual liberation. Like any memento mori, the film enthrones the right morbid imagery (skull, scythe, white limbo) in order to maximize the impact of the beautiful, almost intangible images that conclude it. If only Criterion had acquired my commentary track—sigh—from the UK edition.
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10.1 The Spirit of the Beehive - Victor Erice
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10.2 The Night of the Hunter - Charles Laughton
The two supreme works of childhood/horror. Lamentations of worlds lost and the innocents trapped in them. Sublime fairy tales of despair that depict the adult world as a toxic environment for kids to exist in. Secret treasures kept in the hearts of children must be safeguarded from the corruption of an adult world full of certainty and arrogance. Both films are so beautiful and so dark—they truly make me weep in awe.
http://www.criterion.com/explore/125-guillermo-del-toros-top-10
Guillermo del Toro to Direct 'Beauty and the Beast' Tale for Warner Bros.
Emma Watson is attached to star in "Beauty," one of many projects del Toro is pursuing
Source: THR
Guillermo del Toro is attached to direct Beauty, a new take on the Beauty and the Beast tale set up at Warner Bros. Harry Potter actress Emma Watson is attached to star. At the same time, the studio has hired Andrew Davies to write the script.
The deal has been in the works since last spring, when del Toro first began working with producers Denise De Novi and Alison Greenspan on a take. The project was initially an adaptation of the novel Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of the Beauty and the Beast by Robin McKinley but it has evolved since. Watson came on board last summer but it was always a question whether del Toro would act as a producer or join the project as a director as well.
Del Toro has a tendency to take on many projects at a time. The filmmaker, who is currently shooting Pacific Rim in Toronto, is a consultant for DreamWorks Animation and is directing Trollhunters for the studio. He also is developing a Haunted Mansion movie at Disney and is attached to direct both a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and a Frankenstein project at Universal.
Davies is a British scribe who's worked on all three Bridget Jones' Diary movies as well as last year's The Three Musketeers.
Just throw it on the pile, Guillermo.
Guillermo Del Toro Is Hatching A 'Monster' Of A Series At HBO
BY MIKE FLEMING JR | Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: HBO and Guillermo del Toro are teaming on Monster, developing a potential series culled from a series of 18 volumes of Japanese Manga by author Naoki Urasawa published by Shogakukan Inc. Del Toro will co-write the story with Steven Thompson, best known for his work on Dr. Who and Sherlock. Thompson will write the pilot, which del Toro intends to direct. The thriller is about the worldwide search by a young doctor for the most evil sociopath that has ever lived. He is a 12-year-old boy, and the doctor's decision to save his life has unwittingly unleashed a Pandora's Box that leaves the doc battling to stop a plot of mass genocide. This is certainly a departure for HBO, entering the Manga game, but for del Toro and Thompson, it allows them an incredible sandbox to play in. Del Toro will be executive producer and Thompson co-executive producer, with Angry Films' partners Don Murphy and Susan Montford executive producing with Exile's Gary Ungar. Shogakukan will be consulting producer.
This project was originally set at New Line, but proved too sprawling to confined to a feature film. It took del Toro a long time to woo creator Urasawa into being comfortable with Hollywood again, which sounds a lot like the process that D.B. Weiss and David Benioff went through with George R.R. Martin before they could get Game Of Thrones off the ground at HBO.
Speaking of that, Monster reunites del Toro with Murphy and Montford, his accomplices in the attempt to turn the H.P. Lovecraft novella At The Mountains Of Madness into a feature film. That ended with Universal getting very close to production — with del Toro directing and Tom Cruise ready to star — only to call a halt because del Toro would not budge on the possibility that the film might come in with an R rating. Well, I believe the filmmaker has again raised the issue with Universal, after that studio just had a global hit with Cruise in the sci-fi film Oblivion. Now, the R rating might again be a sticking point, but this becomes even more tantalizing if del Toro's upcoming film Pacific Rim is as big as people suspect it will be this summer for Warner Bros and Legendary Pictures. Those parties are said to be interested if Universal brass is still uncomfortable making a $150 million R-rated 3D movie. Del Toro wouldn't be able to make it until after he directs his ghost story Crimson Peak, but it seems inevitable. It would be nice to see such a creative filmmaker get to make his passion project. Del Toro is repped by WME and Exile.
Quote from: MacGuffin on April 25, 2013, 09:25:57 PM
Guillermo Del Toro Is Hatching A 'Monster' Of A Series At HBO
BY MIKE FLEMING JR | Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: HBO and Guillermo del Toro are teaming on Monster, developing a potential series culled from a series of 18 volumes of Japanese Manga by author Naoki Urasawa published by Shogakukan Inc. Del Toro will co-write the story with Steven Thompson, best known for his work on Dr. Who and Sherlock. Thompson will write the pilot, which del Toro intends to direct. The thriller is about the worldwide search by a young doctor for the most evil sociopath that has ever lived. He is a 12-year-old boy, and the doctor's decision to save his life has unwittingly unleashed a Pandora's Box that leaves the doc battling to stop a plot of mass genocide. This is certainly a departure for HBO, entering the Manga game, but for del Toro and Thompson, it allows them an incredible sandbox to play in. Del Toro will be executive producer and Thompson co-executive producer, with Angry Films' partners Don Murphy and Susan Montford executive producing with Exile's Gary Ungar. Shogakukan will be consulting producer.
This project was originally set at New Line, but proved too sprawling to confined to a feature film. It took del Toro a long time to woo creator Urasawa into being comfortable with Hollywood again, which sounds a lot like the process that D.B. Weiss and David Benioff went through with George R.R. Martin before they could get Game Of Thrones off the ground at HBO.
Speaking of that, Monster reunites del Toro with Murphy and Montford, his accomplices in the attempt to turn the H.P. Lovecraft novella At The Mountains Of Madness into a feature film. That ended with Universal getting very close to production — with del Toro directing and Tom Cruise ready to star — only to call a halt because del Toro would not budge on the possibility that the film might come in with an R rating. Well, I believe the filmmaker has again raised the issue with Universal, after that studio just had a global hit with Cruise in the sci-fi film Oblivion. Now, the R rating might again be a sticking point, but this becomes even more tantalizing if del Toro's upcoming film Pacific Rim is as big as people suspect it will be this summer for Warner Bros and Legendary Pictures. Those parties are said to be interested if Universal brass is still uncomfortable making a $150 million R-rated 3D movie. Del Toro wouldn't be able to make it until after he directs his ghost story Crimson Peak, but it seems inevitable. It would be nice to see such a creative filmmaker get to make his passion project. Del Toro is repped by WME and Exile.
Quote from: polkablues on February 13, 2012, 09:45:33 PM
Just throw it on the pile, Guillermo.