Del Toro Talks El 'Frankenstein'!
We’ve recently been hearing about how Guillermo Del Toro is all booked up ‘til 2017, making movies and writing vampire novels and the like. One of said projects that Del Toro's making in this marathon is a remake of Frankenstein. Del Toro is admittedly a huge Frankenstein fan and has dubbed this film his passion project. (Though I’m pretty sure Guillermo Del Toro gets passionate when A Guy Thing plays on the Superstation.) Either way, there’re a few things to entertain here. Firstly Del Toro’s Frankenstein is just about the same thing as Peter Jackson’s King Kong. It’s a film he conceived forever ago and his vision has probably only grown and grown over the years and possibly ballooned into a bloated disaster. The other problem is that since the original Boris Karloff incarnation of the classic story, there have been a string of terrible Hollywood-fueled remakes of the Frankenstein story. Does Guillermo have what it takes to rise above these previous failures? Well ComingSoon.net had the chance to catch up with Delly T and got some of the filmmaker’s thoughts on his masterpiece in progress. Here’s what Guillermo had to say…
"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!"
…Well, good news about the shirt thing. But I guess only time will tell what we can expect from this flick. Though don’t expect to see anything about it too soon. Del Toro is currently wrapped up in his two-film package directing the Hobbit films. At least we know we’ll be seeing Franky again on-screen by the relatively imminent year of 2017, at which point you can drive your hover car to the theatre and decide for yourself.
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