Posts Tagged ‘Del Toro’

Del Toro’s Frankenstein

Monday, October 6th, 2008

Those of you who read my posts regularly, will probably have guessed that I love Guillermo Del Toro’s work.   He’s awesome.  Seriously.  So when I saw this bit of news about Del Toro making a Frankenstein movie, you know I immediately had to jump to linking it here, as it made me happy like a little school boy.

“I’m not doing ‘Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein.’ I’m doing an adventure story that involves the creature. I cannot say much, but it’s not the central creation story, I’m not worried about that. The fact is I’ve been dreaming of doing a ‘Frankenstein’ movie since I was a child. The one thing I can promise is, compared to Kenneth Branagh, I will not appear shirtless in the movie!” 

Read more at Movies.ie

Del Toro writing a vampire book trilogy

Thursday, September 25th, 2008

It looks like Guillermo Del Toro has signed on to write a trilogy of vampire novels with crime authoe Chuck Hogan.  Also of interesting note is hish signing a four picture deal.  To quote BBC UK:

There are plans to remake Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Frankenstein and Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five.

BBC UK