With his celebrated stop-motion adaptation of “Pinocchio” arriving this coming week on Netflix, filmmaker Guillermo del Toro has offered an update on what’s next for him.
Speaking with the Variety Awards Circuit podcast, he talked about having a whopping twenty-two completed but unproduced scripts on his plate – any one of which he could choose to focus on next.
Asked what will be doing next, he says he doesn’t want to reveal too many details but does offer that it is a “monster movie” of some sort:
“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.”
The project doesn’t sound like his long-awaited “At The Mountains of Madness” adaptation, which he hinted at the other day, could be turned into a stop-motion animated feature. He adds here that should it go that route, it will need to be rewritten as the script would need to be different.
He also confirmed Netflix hasn’t yet officially handed out a second season renewal of his anthology horror series “Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities” even as the director has put together a wishlist of helmers should it go forward.
