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Requiem ex Inferni
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I really enjoyed the movies, but I highly doubt they'll make a third.
Del Toro only put the idea on hold to work on
The Hobbit, and now that he's dropped out of that movie's production he's working with Ron Perlman to get the third one made.
Awesome news.
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It better be the exact same cast.
Don't get too excited. His next movie is
Pacific Rim which comes out next year, and next year he thinks he'll be working on
Pinocchio and the pilot for the TV adaptation of his novels
The Strain Trilogy. After that I'm guessing maybe he'll do
Beauty and the Beast, and there is that DC Comics movie he's been discussing with Warner Brothers that teams up a bunch of the supernatural/monster-like characters.
He might be amazing at what he does, but he bugs the s**t out of me.
I bet half the stuff you just mentioned, won't even happen.
How can anyone that is always all over the place with projects ever get anything done?
Well, from what I can gather, it's actually common for people in this business to have a ton of projects on their plate, but we just don't hear about it. Let's not forget, he got pretty far into pre-production on two whole movies before they were canned between
Hellboy II and
Pacific Rim. First there was
The Hobbit which he was attached to the same year
Hellboy II came out. MGM lost its ******** mind, and two years later that movie was canned before it could officially begin. That news hit in May 2010. In July of the same year, he started to work on
At The Mountains of Madness, which we learned was also canned in March of 2011. So then he finally moved on to
Pacific Rim, which filmed from late 2011 into early/mid 2012.
So sure, it appears that he hasn't done anything, but the truth is he's been working his a** off for years. Let's not forget that aside from huge-budget tentpole adaptations of two of the great authors of fantastic literature (Tolkien and Lovecraft) he was also involved in a ton of other movies whether he was a producer of some sort, or the writer, or whatever, as well as co-writing an incredible trilogy of vampire novels.
So yeah, he has a lot on his plate, but he has tried to get things done. It's not like he's been sitting on his a** all this time. The reason that both his version of
The Hobbit and
At The Mountains of Madness didn't happen is because of studio ********, not because he hasn't tried.
The Hobbit fell apart because of MGM's troubles and
Mountains, well,
Mountains didn't happen because Universal didn't want to do it the way it should be done. Del Toro understands exactly how that movie should be made, and is willing to stick to his guns. Isn't that the kind of thing we want in a director these days? Someone with a true vision who is unwilling to compromise it to studio idiocy?
