ROTTEN TOMATOES: Del Toro Talks "Hellboy 2" and Other New Projects

Del Toro Talks "Hellboy 2" and Other New Projects

by Scott Weinberg | April 10, 2007

Genre master Guillermo del Toro is presently in Budapest, hard at work on pre-production for "Hellboy 2: The Golden Army," but in a recent interview he let us know that this sequel will have a lot of themes in common with "Pan's Labyrinth."

Guillermo even scared "Hellboy" creator Mike Mignola with his new ideas: "Mike was quite horrified by how much I had deviated from what we had talked about, especially at some of the quote, unquote whimsical elements, the parts about magic and the fairy world. But then fortunately, he saw Pan's Labyrinth ... and he realised that the two movies would have some parallels."

The filmmaker isn't interested in delivering any spoilers on "Hellboy 2" -- or on his next project, which (of course) will be a smaller, Spanish-language film. The untitled project comes from screenwriter Sergio Sanchez, and it'll be somewhat of a companion piece to "The Devil's Backbone" and "Pan."

"For me this will be the hardest of the three ...for reasons that I can't explain because it will tell you too much about it," is what the hard-working movie maniac had to say. (And doesn't this guy ever take a vacation??)

Source: The Age

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WiseGuy writes:
on Apr 10 2007 02:08 AM

Sounds like Del Toro is trying to milk his success with Pans for all it is worth. Bad idea.

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ChinaRises writes:
on Apr 10 2007 06:19 AM

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[b]I Agree[/b]
Del Toro has proved himself a great director, so why is he trying to re-hash old ideas. He's practically saying lets take my two popular films- "Hellboy" and "Pans Labiryinth" and combine them to see what comes out. Also, I already thought "Pans Labiryinth" was the companion piece to "The Devil's Backbone". IT contained so many of the same themes and sense of morality, and also used the Spanish Civil War as a backdrop!!

He needs to take a lesson from his friend Alfonso Cuaron, who always keeps his material original.

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lonechicken writes:
on Apr 10 2007 06:29 AM

Least anticipated sequel to a good comic book movie... ever!

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Matanuki writes:
on Apr 10 2007 08:11 AM

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One of the least anticipated comic book sequels perhaps, but it has the potential to be one of the best. One of the things the Hellyboy franchise still has going for it is its 'under the radar' quality. No bloated expectations to compromise the finished product. And no oversaturation of production "news". So bring it on, I say.

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stevegilpin writes:
on Apr 10 2007 08:15 AM

[b]Del Toro rocks[/b]
I still haven't seen Hellboy (it is on my Netflix queue, though!), but I thought The Devil's Backbone and Pan's Labyrinth were both amazing films. Sure, they had some parallels, but I still enjoyed them for different reasons and was completely immersed in them. I hope Del Toro will eventually find a way to make his bigger, more mainstream films like Hellboy 2 match the quality of his Spanish language films. Maybe I'm hoping for too much. Oh, well.

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Matanuki writes:
on Apr 10 2007 11:33 AM

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Hoping for quality from a tried and proven director is never asking for too much. Hoping that hollywood stops putting out so much crap,... that's another story.

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Scarborough Fair writes:
on Apr 10 2007 12:38 PM

I can't watch del toro flicks. When i watched hellboy, I thought it started out really well. (kind of a stupid cg effect for hellboy 'baby'), but overall a pretty good opening. Then some yahoo starting talking behind me, and i really started listening to his conversation. His mother was dying of cancer, and she had done some bad things in her life (DONT WORRY MAN, IF YOU'RE READING THIS, I WONT TELL THEM ABOUT aLL THAT SHIT SHE DID TAHT YOU WHISPERED ABOUT BEHInd ME). So this guy was worried she was going to hell when she died, and i guess hellboy reminded him of that, on the night he was out and trying to forget about her illness (we ALL need to forget about other people's problems every once in a while). Anyways, when i looked up, some monster was exploding and i had missed the whole movie cause i was listening to how this guy's mom killed her sister when she was young. THEN I go to see 'Pan's Labrynth' because i heard it was really good, but when i get to the theatre, it's not even playing. And it wasn't playing anywhere ELSE in my city. I don't know what the devil's backbone is, never heard of it, never seen it.
Del Toro is our worst director, his films are unwatchable. Stop letting him make films, and start getting our film gods (Steven Speelburg anyone??) to make MORE films that i can actually WATCH.

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ChinaRises writes:
on Apr 10 2007 12:56 PM

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Without even knowing you personally Scarborough Fair, I can honestly your the wierdest user on this site.

Keep it comin!!!:)

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OneSoup writes:
on Apr 10 2007 04:14 PM

Although Hellboy fell short in my opinion, Hellboy 2 has the potential to be huge. Del Toro is one of those few directors that just keeps getting better with each new movie while still experimenting with the craft. I have no idea why others aren't more excited.... bitches!

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arcadefire325 writes:
on Apr 10 2007 06:19 PM

so you base your entire opinion of del toro on watching only a little bit of hellboy??? you did not see the entire film and you didn't see any of his other movies.

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kfarschman writes:
on Jun 16 2007 12:40 PM

[b]Scarborough Fair[/b]
WTF????

The only Del Toro movie you saw was the opening section of Hellboy which you said was pretty solid yet you say he's one of our worst directors. I guess that was all a joke/waste of everybody's time but still.... why?

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