Guillermo del Toro , who raised the cake on monster - making in Hellboy and Pan ’s Labyrinth , is now localise to helm two more classic monster picture show — as well as adapt a classical Kurt Vonnegut , Jr. novel . Though del Toro ’s next project is a two - movie version of The Hobbit , he ’s also apparently cut a deal with Universal to remake two of its old monstrosity franchise : Frankenstein and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde . These stories , along with Dracula , were cornerstones of the Universal Pictures monster manufacturing plant in the thirties . Can del Toro surpass the glory of those crazy 30s Frankenstein sequel ? He says he has a programme . According to Slice of Scifi :
The director will add his own twirl to the well - cognize “ Frankenstein ” enfranchisement , a tale he has been waiting to tell all his professional lifetime . “ To me , Frankenstein represents the essential human question : ‘ Why did my creator throw me here , unprotected , unguided , unaided and drop off ? ’ ” del Toro said . “ With that one , they will have to pry it from my stale dead manpower to prevent me from address it . ” However , for “ Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde , ” del Toro plans on sticking closely to the original Robert Louis Stevenson tarradiddle .
Probably the last great version of Frankenstein to hit the covert was Kenneth Branagh ’s version with a marred , whiney Robert De Niro emerging from a gooey , womb - similar machine to become the colossus . As for Jekyll and Hyde , I ’d like to see del Toro have the guts to really stick to the original history , which does not contain any galling girlfriends or maids who are threaten by Hyde . Every single shoot version has had one or two peeress in it , which wholly blows the premise of the original tale about a man who is so alone that he ’s driven to search himself and divide in half . And del Toro will also be adapting Vonnegut ’s beloved novel Slaughterhouse - Five :
In his coming rendering of “ Slaughterhouse - Five , ” del Toro will migrate off from the first film version of Vonnegut ’s inspiring novel and provide a more actual rendition , one that stays truer to the novel . “ There are way that Vonnegut plays with and juxtaposes time that was perhaps too edgy to be tackle on cinema at that time , ” del Toro read .
We ’ll see . This is one of those pic , like Watchmen , that could have fan clutching their heads in agony because it ’s really meant to be a Koran not a film.del Toro ’s 9 twelvemonth Calendar[via Slice of Scifi ]
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