Tag archive: Guillermo del Toro

When it comes to Hollywood’s A-list directors, Hellboy helmer Guillermo del Toro is one of the most devoted gamers out there. He manages to write, produce and direct a large number of movies, but he always makes time to play the latest game releases. And he doesn’t just try out a new game, he plays through it and completes the interactive journey. Del Toro is busy working on his first original video game project with THQ game studio Volition,… Read More

When it comes to horror movies involving supernatural creatures, most films follow a well-worn narrative path. First, we get a scene hinting at the creatures' origin, then we're introduced to the characters destined to be victimized. This is generally followed by a variety of scary encounters that evolve from fleeting, corner-of-the-eye glimpses of the creatures to full-on, scream-inducing attacks. Finally, after all of that… Read More

Ron Howard’s ambitious take on the Stephen King series, The Dark Tower, may turn out to be a little too ambitious for Universal Pictures. Howard's plan is to take the seven book series and adapt it into three feature length movies and two TV mini-series to air between the films. The cast would be under contract to star in the three films and the first TV mini-series, while the second TV outing would be a prequel and feature a younger… Read More

Guillermo Del Toro (Hellboy, Pan's Labyrinth) is a busy guy. His slate of upcoming movies is extremely full and getting more so all the time, so much so that he had to back out of directing The Hobbit after spending two years of his life dedicated to it because of delays that had begun to affect his other projects. One of those many projects includes a video game, or a series of video games, that Del Toro has been working with THQ to… Read More

Guillermo del Toro is a busy guy these days. After backing out of The Hobbit following multiple delays that began to threaten his future projects, del Toro is proving that the excuse of being “too busy” was extremely valid, and you can soon add video game maker to an impressive — and rapidly expanding — resume. This week has already seen the release of a trailer for the movie Don’t be Afraid of the Dark that del Toro… Read More

Guillermo del Toro may have vacated the director’s chair of The Hobbit, but the director and producer is anything but bored. Next up for del Toro is the release of the horror film Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark, of which he is producing and co-writing. Based on an ABC made-for-television movie from 1973, Guy Pearce (Momento, LA Confidential) stars as the father, and Katie Holmes (Batman Begins, Tom Cruise’s wife) is his girlfriend. Pearce’s… Read More

This weekend, Guillermo del Toro announced on the J.R.R. Tolkien fansite TheOneRing.net, that he would be stepping down as director of the two Hobbit movies that serve as a prequel to the Lord of the Rings. He will remain on to help producer Peter Jackson, Philippa Boyens and Fran Walsh finish the scripts. Del Toro has spent the last two years in New Zealand working with Jackson’s company to prepare for the movies, but despite a scheduled… Read More

Mexican film director Guillermo del Toro, who brought Hellboy,Cronos, and Blade II to the big screen, has inked a deal with game studio Terminal Reality to develop “Sundown,” a new video game where an average person must survive an apocalypse of zombies and other monsters by forming alliances and passing scary challenges. And also, we presume, by doing lots and lots of fighting. Terminal Reality birthed the BloodRayne… Read More