“Pan’s Labyrinth” and “Hellboy” director Guillermo del Toro, who most recently stunned the world with his celebrated Netflix animated take on “Pinocchio,” looks to be continuing down that path.
Speaking to an audience at the Annecy animation festival on Tuesday, del Toro says: “There are a couple more live-action movies I want to do but not many. After that, I only want to do animation. That’s the plan.”
Del Toro revealed he first started making ‘what I thought was animation’ when he was 8 years old using his father’s Super 8 camera.
He’s currently following up his “Pinocchio” with an animated feature adaptation of Nobel Prize-winning British writer Kazuo Ishiguro’s “The Buried Giant”. That will be an “adult fantasy drama with stop-motion”.
The book follows an elderly British couple living in a fictional post-Arthurian England in which no one can retain their long-term memories. Del Toro will produce, direct and co-write with Dennis Kelly.
No word on if this decision will impact his long in the works adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s novella “In the Mountains of Madness”, or if that will be made in either animated or 444.
Source: THR
