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05Sep2008

Guillermo Del Toro to Remake 'Frankenstein,' 'Slaughterhouse' and 'Jeckyll and Hyde' in the Next Decade

DateFriday, September 5, 2008 at 5:23AM
You don't necessarily look at Guillermo del Toro and think he wakes up saying, "I've got my next decade all planned out." That's where you're wrong, though. The Hellboy director tells Variety he's going to be very busy between now and 2017, as a director and producer.

It's an ambitious slate, with the two Hobbit films currently in pre-production, and how about this trio of remakes as a director: Frankenstein, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Slaughterhouse-Five. Wow.

He'll temper that by adapting the lesser-known Drood by Dan Simmons as part of his four picture deal with Universal. Do the math: Two Hobbit movies by 2012, and then four movies by 2017. That's a new movie every year from 2011 - 2016, with only one not a full-fledged classic when he took it over. Incidentally, Drood is historical fiction, in which Charles Dickens survives a train crash and becomes a much darker soul as he gears up to write his final novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Could you imagine, Charles Dickens as a murderer?

Oh, and Universal still wants to work with Guillermo on an adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness. Assuming that would follow everything else, that's a new movie every year from seven years. He will also produce a few movies on top of that, including a film version of David Moody's graphic novel Hater as well as his own script for a "gothic romance" called Crimson Peak.

Looking at all of these projects, del Toro feels very adamant about one in particular. "To me, Frankenstein represents the essential human question: ‘Why did my creator throw me here, unprotected, unguided, unaided and lost?’ " del Toro said. "With that one, they will have to pry it from my cold dead hands to prevent me from directing it."

He also has ideas for a third Hellboy, believe it or not.

"We laid the groundwork to have a magnificent third act," the director effused. "I’d like to return to an action franchise with 60-year-old actor Ron Perlman, because he’ll be scratching at that age when I get to it." Incidentally, Perlman will be 60 in two years. How del Toro could find nine months at any point in the next decade is beyond me.

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Not bad for a wookiee.

Friday, September 5, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterSpud

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