Guillermo del Toro is a busy guy. The director of "Hellboy", "The Devil's Backbone" and "Blade 2" is attached to produce or direct any number of major projects and Latino Review caught up with him in Toronto recently to talk about those said projects:
Hellboy 2 Del Toro says "We won't start shooting until late April or early May at the worst, but we have a long prep ahead of us...we're going to shoot this one in Budapest, in Hungary and we're going to shoot a little bit in London and we're going to do pre-production and post-production in London... We definitely have all the regulars - Hellboy, Abe Sapien and Liz Sherman are back. We have two characters from the fantasy world, which are a prince and a princess that we will be casting very soon".
He adds that the plot is about "sort of the magical world declaring war on the human world. The first one was dealing with a much more urban environment and the second one is more in a mythical type of environment, more magical. So hopefully it's closer to some of the aspects of the comic book that we couldn't portray in the first one".
Killing on Carnival Row "New Line Cinema will probably move on to another director. I was attached to it, but I don't have any claim to it. We worked on the screenplay for several months and I think that the screenplay will have a lot of little things that I had changed, but they seem to be inclined to have it produced this year. I won't be able to [direct it], not unless they wait for me and I don't think that they will".
Mountains of Madness "I hope I can find a way to make it on the scope that the story needs...hopefully, 'Mountains' will find enough money or a way to adjust the size of it, but it's a big epic... I wish that I could find the budget for the 'Mountains of Madness' next, but that doesn't depend on me"
Dead Man "We haven't even gone back to the studio with a proposal for a screenplay. We're talking to writers and we're talking about ideas for a screenplay to get a screenplay proposal to a studio. So that's in the very early stages".
The Wolf Man "I don't think that the timetable will work. I don't think that they will wait for me. It would be cool to have Del Toro and Del Toro to confuse people even more. I was approached, but it's all a matter of timetables".
For more, including Del Toro talking a little about a third "Hellboy", click here.
