Guillermo del Toro - RT's Dinner and the Movies Interview
The visionary director spends an hour talking to us about his career.
Part 2 of 12: On the projects he's turned down over the years...
Highlights from the video:
I wish I could work every twenty seconds but the problem is making a movie - if you're really invested in it - takes at least two years of your life, if not three.
I rightfully said no to Se7en, because it was a great script but it was a very cynical view of the world. I loved it, I wanted to see it, but I'm a romantic, fat bastard and I don't subscribe to that view.
When I read Blade 2, I turned it down three times ... Goyer said, "Do you want Hellboy?" I said, "Yeah," and he said, "Then do Blade. They're not going to finance Hellboy from looking at Devil's Backbone."
I rightfully said no to Se7en, because it was a great script but it was a very cynical view of the world. I loved it, I wanted to see it, but I'm a romantic, fat bastard and I don't subscribe to that view.
When I read Blade 2, I turned it down three times ... Goyer said, "Do you want Hellboy?" I said, "Yeah," and he said, "Then do Blade. They're not going to finance Hellboy from looking at Devil's Backbone."
Continue on part 3, as we get stuck into The Hobbit and discuss the plans that had to change to make room for the diminutive hero.
jokerboy1991 on 07-10-2008 10:26 AM
DEL TORO IS THE MAN!