It’s onerous to consider fashionable horror with out getting a psychological image of filmmaker Guillermo del Toro, provided that he’s turn out to be the face of the style because of a profession devoted to all of the creepy and scary issues that cinema can supply. Well, regardless of dipping his toes into the world of interval noir with “Nightmare Alley” and fairytales together with his stop-motion animation model of “Pinocchio,” his subsequent movie may be grounded slightly extra deeply throughout the confines of one other creature characteristic.
The filmmaker briefly spoke with the Variety Awards Circuit podcast (hear beneath), opening up about having 22 accomplished however unproduced scripts and teasing what might be subsequent on the characteristic movie entrance. When the subject of his “next” venture was introduced up, del Toro was slightly extra secretive about it and didn’t even need to reveal the title. But he did point out it’s a “monster movie,” for no matter that’s price given that would imply a number of varied issues given how imprecise that minor descriptor is.
“Well, I’m working on a monster movie; I cannot say the title because it may change, and I could end up making something else. But right now, I’m writing and designing. And we have for the last couple of years. Hopefully, it’ll be next, but anything can happen,” del Toro stated when requested about his subsequent movie.
Then once more, “The Shape of Water” was a monster film however very a lot performed with romance and Cold War spies as nicely. Vagueness may be a great way to maintain issues near the chest in the intervening time, as del Toro clearly isn’t able to share these particulars simply but.
Netflix has but to formally log out on a second season of his anthology horror sequence “Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities” as del Toro added, “We don’t know if there is a second season of ‘Cabinet.’” A second season would possible ask for his consideration and will imply he’ll need to hit pause on this mysterious monster film he’s engaged on. Although, he’s already put collectively a wishlist of filmmakers he’d prefer to work with on that potential second season.
Del Toro additionally talked about how his unmade model of “At The Mountains of Madness” would should be rewritten in the event that they go the stop-motion route as a result of animation and live-action scripts are two very various things. Given this monster film venture is being teased as his subsequent potential movie, it doesn’t sound like “Madness” is able to go anytime quickly, if in any respect, however let’s see the place all of it shakes out.