Following the North American premiere of his “Frankenstein” film at the Toronto International Film Festival, Oscar-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro spoke about what projects are coming next for him.
He discussed two projects on the way – a stop motion version of “The Buried Giant,” and a live-action film with his “Frankenstein” star Oscar Isaac called “Fury”. The latter hs describes as a murderous, violent version of “My Dinner with Andre”.
Nobel Prize-winning Kazuo Ishiguro’s fantasy novel “The Buried Giant” was released in 2015 and follows an elderly Briton couple living in a fictional post-Arthurian England in which no-one is able to retain long-term memories. The couple have dim memories of having had a son, and travel to a neighbouring village to seek him out.
Here’s Del Toro’s breakdown of what’s next for him:
“I am, right now, preparing a stop-motion adaptation of ‘The Buried Giant,’ the Kazuo Ishiguro novel. And it is going to be an epic stop-motion that is not going to be for kids. It’s truly exploring the capacity to act, of a stop-motion project, and fuse a world the way you would do it if it was a live-action.
I’m writing a film to do with Oscar, I’m writing it right now. It’s called ‘Fury’. It goes back to the thriller aspects of ‘Nightmare Alley’. Very cruel, very violent. It’s like ‘My Dinner with Andre’ but killing people after each course.
I’m very interested in the violence we do to each other. We do it with our minds, we do it with our souls, and we do it physically and I think there’s new questions. I’m 60 now, so I’ve gone from asking who I am, [being a] father and son, to regret. I’m in the regret decade, so expect a lot of regret.”
“Frankenstein,” which had its world premiere at Venice last month, will debut in select theaters October 17th ahead of a Netflix premiere on November 7th.
Source: Deadline
