Okay, so it's not a Hellboy movie, but that egg thing is clearly a callback to Abe Sapien, right? Seems oddly specific.
So after talking up a million projects that go nowhere for a decade, Del Toro decided to go the opposite way and sneak release his new movie? What a twist.
Now I just want GDT to sign on to direct a BioShock film he never gets made after watching that teaser.
This is so weird, it's almost exactly like Abe Sapien
No, clearly this is a spiritual-sequel to Creature From The Black Lagoon.
"The Amazons worshipped him"
Lovely concept.
So after talking up a million projects that go nowhere for a decade, Del Toro decided to go the opposite way and sneak release his new movie? What a twist.
Yeah lol but GDT is so close to the Hellboy property that it's hard not to make the association...either way the film looks really lovely.
More Del Toro weirdness. I'll give it a chance (at some point), although Crimson Peak fucking sucked and I wasn't a fan of Pacific Rim. I feel indifferent to this trailer overall.
Well, that certainly was most of the movie.
Showed too much of the movie
i too am upset the trailer spoiled such radical, unforeseen plot twists as "those people keeping the creature in captivity are bad" and "that girl helps the creature escape"
True, but as a lover of horror films and movie monsters GDT would certainly have been super into Creature before Hellboy.
BTW, if any of you haven't seen Creature or want to see it again, the 3D Blu Ray is phenomenal. Those old 3D movies have incredible depth and pop-out and now they are restored and lose the Red/Blue filter.
His English-Language movies tend to suck but his Spanish-Language films are brilliant. This movie, despite being in English, seems wayyyy closer to his Spanish-language films in tone and scope.
I enjoyed his Hellboys but really Pan's Labyrinth is the only great movie he has made.
Have you never seen Cronos or The Devil's Backbone? Because those movies are excellent.
I've seen The Devil's Backbone once but I remember little about it to be honest.
True, but as a lover of horror films and movie monsters GDT would certainly have been super into Creature before Hellboy.
AV Club Interview said:The first time he noticed a movie monster
Guillermo Del Toro: I think the earliest time was when I saw the Gill-man in Creature From The Black Lagoon. That shot of the Gill-man swimming under Julie Adams, which was at the same time for a kid my age, mysteriously sexy, because I didnt know what sexy was. [Laughs.] And enchanting and magical and powerful in a way that only monster movies can be. Still, to this day, I think its the perfect creature suit. In the history of film, there are two perfect creature suits: that and the Xenomorph in Alien.
The A.V. Club: What do you think makes it so perfect?
GDT: Its just the marriage of the performer, the design, and the director. The way the environment allows them to exist is amazing. Creature From The Black Lagoon, the way they shot it, where they shot it, who shot it, everything is perfect. These are perfect occurrences. And Ridley Scott shooting Alien the way he shot it. The performer, Bolaji Badejo, is just amazing.
AVC: In the book, in Bleak House, you have a suit from the original movie.
GDT: Its not an original, its a reproduction, but its a very good one. I collect very few original pieces. I have original pieces from my movies, because I know the director [Laughs.], but other than that I really have amazing tributes and reproductions. Like Adam Savage from Mythbusters is another prop fan, and hes a prop-maker by profession, and we trade props. He trades me an original thing from Hellboy for a reproduction of the Blade Runner gun, for example.
The first time he realized film monsters were designed
GDT: When I opened my first Famous Monsters Of Filmland and I saw, I think it was, Im almost completely certain, an interview with John Chambers or photos of John Chambers with the makeup of Planet Of The Apes, and that was the big moment where I realized, Of course theyre not apes! Up to that point my child brain just said, Yeah, theyre talking monkeys. And then I saw, oh my God, these are prosthetics that someone makes them. Shortly thereafter, I proceeded to apply plaster to my face and lose my eyebrows.
The first time he designed his own monster
GDT: Well, the first drawing I made was the Creature from the Black Lagoon. I drew him, for some reason, eating ice cream. I have no good [Laughs.] answer, but they were two things that I thought were very important in my lifethe ice cream and the Creature. [Laughs.] And it hasnt changed to this day. Those are still two very important things in my life.
i too am upset the trailer spoiled such radical, unforeseen plot twists as "those people keeping the creature in captivity are bad" and "that girl helps the creature escape captivity"
Okay, so it's not a Hellboy movie, but that egg thing is clearly a callback to Abe Sapien, right? Seems oddly specific.
So you're saying there's a chance...M. Night Shyamalan has been tweeting about this film. There's that.
You should watch it again. Pan's Labyrinth is the second film in that thematic series. Those two movies relate to each other.
And Devil's Backbone is just as good imo
No, clearly this is a spiritual-sequel to Creature From The Black Lagoon.
"The Amazons worshipped him"
Lovely concept.
This looks so fantastic, it's basically the Creature from the Black Lagoon remake I've always wanted. I'm glad that del Toro seems to be back to making a more personal, quiet film a la Devil's Backbone and Pan's. Crimson Peak was such a letdown.
Universal should've gotten Guillermo Del Toro to head their Universal Monsters Cinematic Universe.
Sneak release what? This is coming out in December. Apparently he's been talking about it on Twitter. Nobody cared it seems.
"Dream project" and "Guillermo del Toro" go hand in hand.It's stomach turning because his dream project is Frankenstein.
wait are you sure i'm not crazyWhile I get that Fox doesn't have Hellboy rights....cmon this is Del Toro making an Abe movie without them. Him, Doug Jones, the eggs (Abe loves rotten ones) her introducing him to music (Abe's an audiophile), even the room and tank look similar. It's like Del Toro said fuck it, I'm doing it.
While I get that Fox doesn't have Hellboy rights....cmon this is Del Toro making an Abe movie without them. Him, Doug Jones, the eggs (Abe loves rotten ones) her introducing him to music (Abe's an audiophile), even the room and tank look similar. It's like Del Toro said fuck it, I'm doing it.