Aside from Samuel L Jackson (who seems to have a minimum quota of 78 movies per year) Guillermo del Toro is probably the hardest working man in Hollywood right now. The dude is attached to about a billion movies at the moment including the highly anticipated “The Hobbit” movies which will take us back to middle earth to explore the pre-story to Lord of the Rings.
However, one of the other project del Toro has on the go that I’m personally VERY interested in is Frankenstein. Seriously, how long has it been since we’ve had a decent Frankenstein movie? And please don’t say Van Helsing or I’ll have to shoot you and then piss in your corpses mouth.
Obviously, any monster movie that del Toro does is going to include Doug Jones in one form or another. Jones was del Toro’s Fauna n Pan’s Labyrinth, Abe Sapian in the Hellboy movies and was recently the Silver Surfer (for which they stupidly replaced his voice with Morpheous’). Recently Doug talked a bit about the upcoming Frankenstein project:
“[Guillermo’s] got a four-picture deal with Universal, so once he’s done with The Hobbit, I think the first thing that’s up on the docket will be Frankenstein. And reinvention is going to be the name of it, because he’s going back to the Mary Shelley book and starting fresh with it.” So this new Frankenstein isn’t something we’ll see until at least 2012 once the second Hobbit movie hits? Then why start work so early? “We are going to do some tests just to see, because he has five years to play with this. He’s taking that luxury of time to make this absolutely perfect.”
“This is his dream. [Del Toro] was inspired by Frankenstein when he was a kid. It was the monster that made him want to make monsters. So because of that it’s been [a] lifelong [dream], and he wants to be perfect with him.”
Sounds great to me! (source: Firstshowing)
