Guillermo Del Toro booked through 2017!

[Sawyer]

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Guillermo Del Toro to direct at least through 2017 according to Variety!

Hey folks, Harry here... Some of you may have noticed my talkback on Merrick's ME SOMMERS story - where the subject read, "****ity **** **** ****" and the body read, "F*****". That actually really wasn't about Sommers being involved in TARZAN, so much as it was about Guillermo Del Toro no longer being a part of Tarzan. You see, I'm a Burroughs freak - it's Johnny Weismuller's fault - he babysat me a couple of times back when I was a kid and as a result - I had an early obsession with TARZAN - which of course led me through the TARZAN books - along with the rest of the Burroughs wonders. For about 10 years, Guillermo and I have had conversations about how TARZAN had never really been adapted as he was written. He "got" the version of TARZAN that lovers of those first 3-4 books loved. That doesn't mean Sommers won't make a fun film. But he won't make THAT Tarzan. I imagine his adaptation will probably involve more aspects from the later TARZAN novels with lost civilizations and the fantastical beats. Which is fine, that's just not my fave TARZAN. I just don't want Tarzan swinging and moving like SPIDER-MAN ... they're different.

ANYWAYS... This article is supposed to be about that amazing story that Michael Fleming posted at VARIETY about Guillermo being booked for film projects through 2017. They are apparently set to be the two HOBBIT films, followed by an adaptation of the Dan Simmons novel THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD which will be kknown simply as DROOD, a film version of FRANKENSTEIN, DR JEKYLL AND MR HYDE along with SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE - then there's his passion project AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS - which if he can get budgeted and approved at the level he wants - could be made before any of those others... GOD WILLING. And then there's always the possibility of a third HELLBOY.

Fleming also mentions his producing projects based on David Moody's HATER along with a spec written by Guillermo and Matthew Robbins called CRIMSON PEAK.

Seems UNIVERSAL is quite eager to be in the Guillermo Del Toro business, which is a good thing - cuz it means UNIVERSAL wants to build its Horror Brand - something they would be forever loved for if they produced his AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS - as that is the next evolutionary step forward in theatrical Horror.

Holy **** dude...

 

[Eggyman]

Del Toro doing a film based on one of H.P. Lovecraft's most famous stories (At The Mountains of Madness)?!

faptacular!

 

[chaseter]

Good to hear people have caught on to how good of a director he is. That means however no Hellboy 3 for a long long time

 

[luke1234]

damnit i really wanted Hellboy 3

 

[Captain Planet!]

Del Toro + Frankenstein =

 

[cryptic name]

Del Toro doing Frankenstein and Jekyll/Hyde sounds f**king amazing.

and fingers crossed for At the Mountains of Madness

 

[Sawyer]

It's a shame that he lost Tarzan though.

Well, you win some, you lose some.

 

[FaT_tONle]

Good... now people can stop suggesting Del Toro for every freaking new adaptation that rolls around...

 

[CashforStash]

Sounds good.

 

[CashforStash]

Sounds good.

 

[CrimsonMist]

it's great to hear that Del Toro's not giving up on Lovecraft. I think cinema needs more Lovecraft to be honest. And by that, i mean faithful, mind-numbing horror. Not cheesy special effects-laden, gore & sex & nudity filled, so called "adaptations" (I'm looking at you Stuart Gordon). I enjoy Gordon's films...but to call them good adaptations is wrong.

It's gonna be a hard wait to see Del Toro actually get around to making "At The Mountains of Madness", but it will be so worth it.

 

[Rac]

it's great to hear that Del Toro's not giving up on Lovecraft. I think cinema needs more Lovecraft to be honest. And by that, i mean faithful, mind-numbing horror. Not cheesy special effects-laden, gore & sex & nudity filled, so called "adaptations" (I'm looking at you Stuart Gordon). I enjoy Gordon's films...but to call them good adaptations is wrong.

It's gonna be a hard wait to see Del Toro actually get around to making "At The Mountains of Madness", but it will be so worth it.

I bet he's gonna use the money he gets from the Hobbit movies to finance the damn thing himself if any studio won't do it. At least I hope so!

He could use some of that money to make HBIII too, if Universal ain't interested.

 

[The Major]

It's a shame that he lost Tarzan though.

Well, you win some, you lose some.

He'll get around to it eventually.

 

[Arcturus]

YES! At the Mountains of Madness. Quite possibly one of my favorite stories of all-time, in the hands of an excellent director.

I am pleased.

 

[Carmine Falcone]

I guess that his verison of Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde will be a bit more outrageous as the book was. It's quite sober, really, not at all a monster story. Jekyll actually SHRINKS as he becomes Mr. Hyde....I guess alot of people don't know that. I didn't knew it before I read the novel anyway.

Same goes for Frankenstein BTW. But he said he won't be adapting the book, but make it a blend of all kinds of Frankenstein material. Novel, movies etc.

 

[Brian Braddock]

Del Toro's Frankenstein.

Ron Perlman as Franksenstein's monster ftw.

 

[Why Are You Crouching Spock?]

Two hobbit films?

 

[RickO'Connell]

Good to hear people have caught on to how good of a director he is. That means however no Hellboy 3 for a long long time

He will probably end up passing the torch of Hellboy to someone else before Ron gets to old

 

[Eggyman]

Two hobbit films?

Yup. They're splitting it.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

Good to hear people have caught on to how good of a director he is. That means however no Hellboy 3 for a long long time

This is I am bummed about, I wanted HBIII straight after the hobbit movies, but its not looking good for HellBoy fans at the moment .

 

[CrimsonMist]

I bet he's gonna use the money he gets from the Hobbit movies to finance the damn thing himself if any studio won't do it. At least I hope so!

He could use some of that money to make HBIII too, if Universal ain't interested.

that would be awesome. I think he's said that At The Mountains of Madness wouldn't have that huge of a budget anyway. So he could probably finance it himself with ease.

 

[cryptic name]

I guess that his verison of Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde will be a bit more outrageous as the book was. It's quite sober, really, not at all a monster story. Jekyll actually SHRINKS as he becomes Mr. Hyde....I guess alot of people don't know that. I didn't knew it before I read the novel anyway.

Same goes for Frankenstein BTW. But he said he won't be adapting the book, but make it a blend of all kinds of Frankenstein material. Novel, movies etc.

i like that idea for frankenstein. as for jekyll and hyde, maybe they'll do something like moore's version in league of extraordinary gentlemen (not the move!!!) where hyde starts out smaller than jekyll but grows bigger and more monsterous as jekyll wastes away. because with hyde seperated from him, jekyll has no drives, and without jekyll, hyde has no limits.

 

[Fanticon]

he's gonna have to cut some of these projects...sounds like his dream slate...

 

[Sawyer]

Del Toro's Frankenstein.

Ron Perlman as Franksenstein's monster ftw.

Del Toro actually wants Doug Jones, if I remember correctly.

 

[cryptic name]

Del Toro actually wants Doug Jones, if I remember correctly.

f**king A t: