If you’re a fan of Guillermo del Toro, today is Christmas. That’s because at tonight’s Saturn Awards, del Toro surprised everyone by attending the ceremony and answering a ton of questions backstage in the press room. While most of us would have been happy to speak to him for 5 minutes, he continued talking to us for over 20 minutes!! We literally got so much info out of him that we stopped asking questions. I know it’s hard to believe, but after watching the interview, you’ll see we covered everything you could think to ask him.
During the 20 or so minutes we talked about The Hobbit, Hellboy 3, Frankenstein, Saturn and the End of Days, Death The High Cost of Living, Comic-Con, At the Mountains of Madness, his “Man Cave (his second house where he keeps all his collectibles) and so much more. Trust me, if you’re a fan of GDT, this is a must watch interview. And to make it easy, I’ve time indexed everything we talked about and listed some of the highlights after the jump.
Oh, and one thing he told me off camera…Criterion is going to release a Blu-ray of Cronos in December and it’s going to include a 15 minute documentary on his Man Cave!
Since some of you might not have the time to watch…here’s some highlights.
- Wants to be shooting something in May of next year
- At the Mountains of Madness is probably not going to happen due to many reasons (he explains in interview)
- Hellboy 3 would only happen after his next project. It’s definitely not his next film
- Frankenstein – he is presenting the storyline to Universal and Doug Jones will play Frankenstein
- Frankenstein screenplay is not done yet
- At Comic-Con GDT will be promoting Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark. They are definitely announcing a project at Comic-Con that he will be writing, producing and maybe directing. Says he is at Comic-Con for 3 days to do some shopping
- His Man Cave is getting an addition. He explains.
- Says the 3 projects he is thinking about have scripts that are much further along. Says the script he really wants to do he started 15 years ago!
- Says his brother is making for him the car from the movie The Car starring James Brolin! He’ll be driving around Los Angeles in 3 months in it
Here’s the full interview. It’s a great one. Also, make sure to check back for a lot more video interviews from tonight’s Saturn Awards.
GDT
- Is it bittersweet to be home
- Do the drawing for The Hobbit belong to someone else now? He also talks about the visual direction for the movie
- 1:30 – On the flight over to the USA, did a lot of people come up to him to say how sorry they are he isn’t doing The Hobbit
- 2:00 – All the projects he’s attached to. Is he leaning towards one project right now
- 2:30 – At the Mountains of Madness talk – explains why it is still hard for a studio to do it
- 3:25 – Says he has narrowed his list of projects he might do to 3
- 3:45 – Is Frankenstein easier to do. Says he is presenting the storylines to Universal
- 4:00 – Wants to be shooting something in May of next year.
- 4:20 – Hellboy 3 talk – says they still need to write the screenplay. Says it would have to be the movie after the next one
- 4:50 – The guys from Chuck join the interview
- 5:30 – Reveals Doug Jones would play Frankenstein!
- 6:15 – Did he make a decent living doing the pre-production of The Hobbit
- 6:45 – Can they move forward with another director on The Hobbit with the MGM situation
- 7:40 – Has the lukewarm reception to The Wolfman made Universal nervous to Frankenstein. Talks about his love of Frankenstein and Creature From the Black Lagoon
- 8:40 – More about Doug Jones as Frankenstein. Says they have already done the sculpting! They are doing a test with Doug very soon
- 9:05 – Frankenstein screenplay is not done yet
- 9:40 – Says the 3 projects he is thinking about have scripts much further along. Says the script he really wants to do he started 15 years ago!
- 10:40 – Says he is stuck on page 25 of Saturn and the End of Days
- 11:00 – Did he learn a lot on The Hobbit that he can take to his next project
- 12:00 – Is the project he might do at Universal. Says one of the three is…the other two are not. Talks about not wanting to do a rebound movie. Funny stuff.
- 13:45- Is there any chance of him going back to The Hobbit if the MGM situation got resolved very soon
- 14:40 – Could we still see his version of Death The High Cost of Living
- 15:10 – Splice talk
- 16:15 – What is he doing at Comic-Con. Says he’s promoting Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark. They are definitely announcing a project at Comic-Con that he will be writing, producing and maybe directing. Says he is at Comic-Con for 3 days to do some shopping
- 17:50 – Talks about his man cave (his second home). Says it is so full he is building a new wing that’s called the rain room and it’s going to rain all day in it and night all day. He also talks about the home and what’s in it. Sounds amazing.
- 20:00 – What drives him to succeed
- 20:45 – Talks about the car he drives. Says his brother is making for him the car from the movie The Car starring James Brolin!
- 21:55 – Have a lot of other studios and people been trying to contact him for other projects
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Wow GDT sure answered a lot of questions. You can always count on GDT to be humble and modest.
What a great interview, laughed all the way through. I thought you're questions were the best. The other guys didn't seem to know what to ask. And he kept talking…..lol
Can't wait for his next film. What a nice guy he is.
I honestly have no interest in another Frankenstein movie. I'm sure he would make a great Frankenstein movie but I would like him to do something more original.
Also will Doug Jones be playing Dr. Frankenstein or Frankensteins monster?
Decided to watch the video and he says Frankenstein's monster. Forgive my lazy ass.
“I wanted to see your Hobbit!”
i do not give a damn waht this TRAITOR has to say bout the masterpiece he ABANDONED
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Such a nice guy. Must be great to interview someone like him.
NICE GUY!? HES A TRAITOR B/C OF HIM WE MAY HAVE TO WAIT TIL LIKE 2020 FOR THE HOBBIT NOW
Doug Jones as Frankenstein's Monster is old, old, old news.
Is it just me, or is the audio on this video completely wonky? I've had this issue with some other Collider videos. Does anyone experience the same thing? It makes it very difficult to listen.
You need 2 things: psychiatric help and a beer.
Mordor, do you know what you're talking about?
He should do Ocarina of Time instead!
Ya and MGM being broke as shit has nothing to do with it at all…
Stupid fucking trolls…
End of Line
Nerds!!
Nice interview sad to see him leave Hobbit.I liked it when he said Jaws with wheels .
No Mountains of Madness, go ahead and turn your back onthe project you were born for.
You are not alone. I am not sure what they are doing but the audio sounds out of phase or poorly aliased.
Great Interview. Looking forward to what he is bringing to the theater next!
Thanks Collider!
So jealous that you got to spend time with this creative mind. Great questions, Steve. He seems so genuine and loves his art, which is telling a story. Awesome.
Hobbit is a lousy kids book.
He got lucky, The Hobbit is a kids book which is tonally quite different to LOTR. I've no interest in seeing it. Bilbo isn't even conscious for the final battle (Bit like Knight & Day!).
“At the Mountains of Madness” would be hard to translate to film and remain faithful to Lovecraft.
The thing is, so is Frankenstien, so is any great book really, but I think filmakers have a obligation to chart new terratory, and the biggest problem with film is people are constantly treading water. Stuart Gordon has made popular cult films bassed on Lovecrafts work on no budget. Imagine what Del Toro could do with Cthulu, Randolph Carter, Mountains of Madness. It will have it's flaws like anything else but people will like it. Think of how Lovecraft pops up time and time again in film, comics, toys, music, art, I've seven seend a Cthulu graduation cake. If your not going to take risk and explore cinema what's the point? Even the Wizard of Oz and 20,00 Leauges is long over do for a remake, imagine his take on those, where as their are new versions of Frankenstien nearly every year, and Monte Cristo at least once a decade.
Guillermo DelToro and Doug Jones are so amazing at their crafts.
All I want him to do is Dr. Strange. The rest is immaterial to me know that he's not doing 'At the Mountains of Madness'
He didn't abandon anything. The production may not even go forward. It's tied up at MGM which may yet go bankrupt. He has already devoted 3 years of his life to this and would be forced to spend another 3 years doing this without a proper green light on the project. What a waste. He has WAY too much he wants to do that he can't tie himself up for 6 years on something that may not even happen. Pull your head out.
u call the the most creative directors out there who brought u hellboy 1/2, orphanage, the strain, and pans labryinth a traitor. u my friend r traitor for turning ur back on del torro. spending six yrs with no green lite is a waste. we mite not see bond 23 where director of road to perdition is rumored to be attached to.
he even said he isn't leaving. he's gonna help write it, but he's going back to new zeland
None of the movies on that list have source anywhere NEAR the level of the Hobbit. The Hobbit could have been his second masterpiece, shame he left it.