A fucking great status report by the man himself went up the HELLBOY MSG boards:
http://boards.sonypictures.com/hellb...s=&postid=6651
Read the CC story here:
http://www.creature-corner.com/news4/nov17deltoro.php3
Or just read it all here:
The future can never be accurately predicted -I thought that MEPHISTO's BRIDGE would be the movie after CRONOS and, consecuently I thought that DEVIL'S BACKBONE would be my debut film.... That said, here we go-
MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS -being re-written until early spring, right now it is in the hands of my writing partner Matthew Robbins (SUGARLAND EXPRESS, DRAGONSLAYER, MIMIC,etc) so, there, we won't hear from the studio until -probably- spring of 2004. Cross your tentacles.
WIND IN THE WILLOWS Written. As of now, I am no longer attached to the project. I turned in my draft -co-written with MR- and the approach I planned proved to be very expensive and -probably weird- to the studio. It happens... I cherish a scene in which mr. Toad was paraded though London a bit like THE ELEPHANT MAN. Sigh- no wonder they found it weird...
CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON I have never been in development with this property. I just pitched a possible idea to do a Jules Verne sort of adaptation of the premise. I am now part of tha many guys that have "pitched" a CFTBL movie( Carpenter, Landis, etc) in a way I am relieved, Seeing the original with my daughter made me realize how perfect it is- Oh, Julie!
MONTECRISTO Written. Still looking for a way of making it happen.
MEPHISTO'S BRIDGE Written. It's been 10 years since I wrote this one... I need to rewrite it someday. It is a little dated. Many movies have done the Faustian Doppelganger bit since the scipt was written. Most notably that anarchic, misantropic masterpiece FIGHT CLUB.
DOMU Stilll in Lawyer Limbo after 5 years of negotiations.
LIST OF 7 Written by Mark Frost. Also in it's 10th anniversary... It has become a tradition to talk to Mark Frost every year and plan new ways of have this baby financed. When we wrote it, Steampunk had not yet taken hold. Many movies have done stuff like it now -with varying dgrees of success (WWWest, LXG, etc) but LIST OF 7 remains as powerful today as it was when we adapted the novel. K.W. Jeeter, Tim Powers, Mark Frost, brilliant mind in search for a movie, somewhere in the future.
COFFIN Outlined. There is a storyline written by Tim McCanlies (IRON GIANT, SECONDHAND LIONS) but we have not "nailed" it -no pun intended, sorry. Thankfully, Lightstorm is being very patient and I hope this one takes shape next year. The comic is incredibly interesting but I want to find the exact tone for it.
CRIMSON PEAK I am in talks about that one. I would love to be able to make a Gothic Romance much in the Bronte/ DuMarier mold but really creepy. I will start outlining the story and work on the outline quite soon.
BTW: i didn't recall "the f#@*ing scariest movie" quote i've been attributed. But, what the heck!! I'll give it a try...
Oh, and the inevitable HBII. Well, I hate to speculate at all, it will all depnd on the world embracing the first one. So, keep you eyes peeled.
There, as you can see -I hope- I am actively developing MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS but it's in MR's hands and I have to ground CRIMSON PEAK and -hopefully- COFFIN. Not at all an overloaded development slate. Sadly, projects fall in or out of favor, but I am VERY stubborn and stick with them until I get them made -or not. Sometimes -like WIND IN THE WILLOWS or -in the past- HELL HOUSE I cannot hold onto a project because it belongs to a particular studio's "library' and won't be released to me. Those make me feel quite down...
http://boards.sonypictures.com/hellb...s=&postid=6651
Read the CC story here:
http://www.creature-corner.com/news4/nov17deltoro.php3
Or just read it all here:
The future can never be accurately predicted -I thought that MEPHISTO's BRIDGE would be the movie after CRONOS and, consecuently I thought that DEVIL'S BACKBONE would be my debut film.... That said, here we go-
MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS -being re-written until early spring, right now it is in the hands of my writing partner Matthew Robbins (SUGARLAND EXPRESS, DRAGONSLAYER, MIMIC,etc) so, there, we won't hear from the studio until -probably- spring of 2004. Cross your tentacles.
WIND IN THE WILLOWS Written. As of now, I am no longer attached to the project. I turned in my draft -co-written with MR- and the approach I planned proved to be very expensive and -probably weird- to the studio. It happens... I cherish a scene in which mr. Toad was paraded though London a bit like THE ELEPHANT MAN. Sigh- no wonder they found it weird...
CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON I have never been in development with this property. I just pitched a possible idea to do a Jules Verne sort of adaptation of the premise. I am now part of tha many guys that have "pitched" a CFTBL movie( Carpenter, Landis, etc) in a way I am relieved, Seeing the original with my daughter made me realize how perfect it is- Oh, Julie!
MONTECRISTO Written. Still looking for a way of making it happen.
MEPHISTO'S BRIDGE Written. It's been 10 years since I wrote this one... I need to rewrite it someday. It is a little dated. Many movies have done the Faustian Doppelganger bit since the scipt was written. Most notably that anarchic, misantropic masterpiece FIGHT CLUB.
DOMU Stilll in Lawyer Limbo after 5 years of negotiations.
LIST OF 7 Written by Mark Frost. Also in it's 10th anniversary... It has become a tradition to talk to Mark Frost every year and plan new ways of have this baby financed. When we wrote it, Steampunk had not yet taken hold. Many movies have done stuff like it now -with varying dgrees of success (WWWest, LXG, etc) but LIST OF 7 remains as powerful today as it was when we adapted the novel. K.W. Jeeter, Tim Powers, Mark Frost, brilliant mind in search for a movie, somewhere in the future.
COFFIN Outlined. There is a storyline written by Tim McCanlies (IRON GIANT, SECONDHAND LIONS) but we have not "nailed" it -no pun intended, sorry. Thankfully, Lightstorm is being very patient and I hope this one takes shape next year. The comic is incredibly interesting but I want to find the exact tone for it.
CRIMSON PEAK I am in talks about that one. I would love to be able to make a Gothic Romance much in the Bronte/ DuMarier mold but really creepy. I will start outlining the story and work on the outline quite soon.
BTW: i didn't recall "the f#@*ing scariest movie" quote i've been attributed. But, what the heck!! I'll give it a try...
Oh, and the inevitable HBII. Well, I hate to speculate at all, it will all depnd on the world embracing the first one. So, keep you eyes peeled.
There, as you can see -I hope- I am actively developing MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS but it's in MR's hands and I have to ground CRIMSON PEAK and -hopefully- COFFIN. Not at all an overloaded development slate. Sadly, projects fall in or out of favor, but I am VERY stubborn and stick with them until I get them made -or not. Sometimes -like WIND IN THE WILLOWS or -in the past- HELL HOUSE I cannot hold onto a project because it belongs to a particular studio's "library' and won't be released to me. Those make me feel quite down...
Anyone paying attention on the boards for the last year to six months knows that I'm a BIG Creature fan--all three movies, even ...Walks Among Us is frikkin' brilliant, damn it!--and while most fanboys are slobbering all over themselves envisioning a remake, I just think one should leave well enough alone when it comes to the classics (and I mean the 50+ year old classics here). Sure, House on Haunted Hill was cool, but you'd be hard pressed to justify the original Price vehicle as a "classic," and we all know what happened to The Haunting 
. TCM was a good re-imagining, I'll give them that, but for me it only works because it plays off the original so well--otherwise it'd be forgettable time filler. To wit, it NEEDS the original in order to work, rather than being a stand alone great movie on its own merits.
