If you’ve kept a close on eye the career of Guillermo del Toro over the past twenty-five years, you’ll be well aware that the Oscar-winning filmmaker’s list of unproduced projects outweighs his actual filmography, with many of his planned movies finding themselves stuck in development hell before fizzling out.
Posting on social media, del Toro has been reflecting on the time “lost” on these unrealised projects, producing a list that includes:
At the Mountains of Madness
Beauty and the Beast
The Buried Giant
The Coffin
The Count of Monte Cristo
Drood
Fantastic Voyage
Haunted Mansion
The Hulk (TV pilot)
Justice League Dark
List of 7
Mephisto’s Bridge
Nightmare Alley
Pacific Rim 2 (a ‘very different’ version)
Superstitious
Wind in the Willows
The Witches
Del Toro goes on to reveal the above projects had all progressed as far through development as to have a completed script at the very least, and that “each script takes about a year, so more than a decade of work lost (in the case of Mountains, much more, since we scouted and designed etc).”
Who knows – given that his long-gestating Pinocchio adaptation has finally received the green light thanks to Netflix, perhaps del Toro may yet get to realise one or two of the above at some point in the future. Which of those projects would you most like to see? Let us know in the comments below…
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Originally published December 2, 2018. Updated December 3, 2018.
