Del Toro Shares His Lost Project List

Posted by at 12:35 pm on November 27, 2018

Filmmakers are almost always attached to multiple projects at any one time because films take years of development in most cases before production kicks off.

Multiple elements have to align for a film to proceed, so it comes as no surprise many directors have long lists of ‘might have been’ projects – films either partly or fully scripted but which have yet to make it much beyond that point. Oscar-winning director Guillermo del Toro is famous for having one of the longest lists of that type, his name attached to many projects over the years.

He recently took to Twitter to lament and list the sheer amount of time ‘lost’ on film and television projects that he spent serious time developing and writing but didn’t get the green light for.

The projects, many of which he co-wrote, 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
  • Superstitious
  • Wind in the Willows
  • The Witches

del Toro explains that each of these projects has a completed script at the very least and adds:

“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).”

del Toro is next slated to helm Pinocchio for Netflix.

Leave a Reply

Sign Up For Our Newsletter

Sign up to receive breaking news
as well as receive other site updates

Enter your Email


Preview | Powered by FeedBlitz

Log in

Copyright © 2008 - 2024 · StreetCorner Media , LLC· All Rights Reserved ·