How Guillermo del Toro manages to keep juggling as many fragile plates as he does is beyond me; he’s now deep into the co-writing of his adaptation of The Hobbit, which I’m sure you all know will be broken down into two films; he still has that proposed adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness he’s been talking about for years; he also has a proposed remake/adaptation/ re-imagining/call-it-what-you-will of Frankenstein…and that’s just the short list of what’s keeping him occupied until 2017.
You can now add one more project to the fold, as the Associated Press is reporting del Toro plans to co-write a trilogy of novels with writer Chuck Hogan. The first one out of the gate will be The Strain, which is slated for next summer:
“The idea is epic in scope,” del Toro said in a statement issued Wednesday by publisher William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins. “The trilogy advances in unexpected ways and each book contains unique and surprising revelations about the history, physiology and lore of the vampiric race, tracing its roots all the way back to its Old Testament origins.”
Del Toro does vampires again? You can count me in!
It’ll be great to see a writer of del Toro’s stature branch out into the world of books where he won’t be inhibited by actors, budgets, and the proverbial Hollywood politics and bullshit that bog down most productions.
As for writer Chuck Hogan, he’s best known for titles such as The Killing Moon, Prince of Thieves, and The Blood Artists. Prince of Thieves is currently being adapted into a feature film, starring and directed by Ben Affleck.
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Just ****ing do Mountains of Madness. Everything else is of secondary importance.
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"a writer of del Toro's stature"
uhhh… del toro's a pretty good director but crappy scripts are what keep his movies from being great.
Agree with the above. Toro can't write for shit. Hellboy 2 is living proof of that. And frankly I'm getting tired of reading about every single non-existent project this guy get attached to and doesn't do. Getting excited about this stuff is major fanboy wank. Let us know when these things go into actual production and then I might get excited. As long as he hasn't written the script.
With the exception of Blade II, he's written all of the movies he's directed movies.
The comments are back and Devin is a greasy FAT FUCK!
Oh wonderful, more vampire movies. Given the apparent biblical origins of this vampiric race I'm assuming it'll involve the mark of Cain:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire:_the_Masquerade
To those who say that del Toro can't write, I dare say you probably don't know much about writing and structure. Pan's Labyrinth is as layered and nuanced as a genre film can get, and is also a brilliant exercises in setting up and paying off.
I'd also challenge anyone to find any major flaws in the script for The Devil's Backbone. It's an outstanding film.
With his spanish movie's, GDT hides behind the spanish language. His plotting is usually decent for these flick's and no-one is debating his sense of style, but in his home country he isn't exactly viewed as an autuer in dialogue either. We english speaking mouth breathers just can't tell if the spanish dialogue is shite or great. Hellboy and Hellboy 2's scripts were the weakest part of those two films along with that terrible sing along scene with abe sapien and HB. Fucking gay.
Whoa! DelToro's skinnier than Devin! Well, that's not saying much, but still – Devin's a fat fucking tub of goo.
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