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Del Toro's next project announced - Haunted Mansion
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jstevenson
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Screw all the haters in this thread.
Del Toro, making a dark movie, based on one of the most beloved Disney rides. It's going to be wild and awesome. I'm so excited.
Sure, Hobbit would be better, but if we get Peter Jackson directing that, then it's win-win, right?
Del Toro, making a dark movie, based on one of the most beloved Disney rides. It's going to be wild and awesome. I'm so excited.
Sure, Hobbit would be better, but if we get Peter Jackson directing that, then it's win-win, right?
Dan said:
Most studios find security in funding those types of projects. Guillermo said that he'd like to do At the Mountains of Madness, but at the moment it's hard to find a studio that would fund an "R-rated, tentpole movie with a tough ending, with no love story". I'm sure most of his proposed projects are on the same boat.
Also in that same interview Guillermo said that he is stuck at page 25 of the script for Saturn and the End of Days and can't get past it. He got stuck on page 15 for Pan's Labyrinth for about a year and a half.
leroy hacker
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No, he dropped waiting for MGM to straighten out its finances to make this.Branduil said:
At any rate, every time he announces yet another project that isn't At the Mountains of Madness I am disappointed.
How long will I have to wait?
That's what I was referencing.mello said:Also in that same interview Guillermo said that he is stuck at page 25 of the script for Saturn and the End of Days and can't get past it. He got stuck on page 15 for Pan's Labyrinth for about a year and a half.
Del Toro does a lot of bitching about how obnoxious it is to work under the studio system, but he just keeps signing big deals with every studio in town instead of doing another lower budgeted original movie with independent financing. He's his own worst enemy.
Mashing said:
There was, I am pretty sure a direct to video
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Terror_(film)
br0ken_shad0w
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CiSTM said:
Damn it, this is my movie version of HL: Episode 3 and you had to bring it up...
Foliorum Viridum
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I'm not sure he'll make anything as good as Pan's Labyrinth and The Devil's Backbone in a long, long time. 
Man, if Del Toro's making a Haunted Mansion pic, I hope he goes with the Haunted Manor storyline from the Disneyland Paris version of the ride, which is a more scary take on the original Haunted Mansion.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_Manor
http://doombuggies.com/phantom1.php
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_Manor
http://doombuggies.com/phantom1.php
Ew, that movie sucked. Just a muddled mess of subplots that go nowhere and a ton of irrelevant supernatural tangents.Foliorum Viridum said:I'm not sure he'll make anything as good as Pan's Labyrinth and The Devil's Backbone in a long, long time.
Cosmic Bus
pristine morning snow
Ah, a project worthy of his writing abilities.
Poimandres
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What's with all the hate?
I think this will be good. He says he wants to make it legitimately scary, and not for kids.
I think this will be good. He says he wants to make it legitimately scary, and not for kids.
shintoki said:
Why do people act like he dropped out of the hobbit so easily?
The Hobbit is tied up in limbo and will be for the next year or maybe longer.
Hell he will probably make two or three movies before the Hobbit is even green lit.
I know the internet is full of idealists who would never think about the need of money coming in and all and would only focus on the highest of art, but I am sure the man wants to keep money coming in to finance future projects and to build ties that could help down the line.
brandonh83
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Prine said:
It seems to work. :lol
VistraNorrez
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It's a very different company than it was even 2 years ago. He'll probably even work with some Pixar guys.nemesun said:
GillianSeed79
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Hex said:
I was listening to an NPR interview from a former film exec who said he threatened resign if Braveheart wasn't green lighted, same with Fight Club. Del Toro needs to make Dark Knight box office numbers before anyone would let him make In The Mountains of Madness.
surrealist
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Glad it isn't the other Del Torro making this film. Still, waste of talent.
SCULLIBUNDO
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Dan said:
Oh Dan, when the planets align every once in a while, your words and my thoughts synch up and everything becomes this euphoric haze that I can only see as something beautiful.
The Devil's Backbone is one of the most overrated films I've ever seen. Nice setup, no payoff. Allegorically it has merit, yet its FAR less subtle in its Franco musings than Pan's Labyrinth - which, once released, made Backbone completely irrelevent.
hosannainexcelsis
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I'm not sure how I feel about this - I really do wish the Hobbit hadn't run into so many troubles so del Toro could have stayed on. At least the film should be visually creative.
SCULLIBUNDO
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Dan said:
That depends if its working.
I can't imagine this being a box office success, once parents find out that it's not kid friendly they'll steer clear of it, meanwhile horror fans not in the know will also steer away from it. The best I can see this doing is as a niche title that every once in awhile get's brought out as "that crazy Disney slasher"...
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