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Guillermo Del Toro Is Making A Haunted House Movie!
Nordling here.
Can we just go ahead and say now that Guillermo Del Toro will make the definitive haunted house movie? He's already going to make the definitive giant-monsters-vs.-robots movie with PACIFIC RIM, and now Deadline is reporting that Del Toro's next project will be CRIMSON PEAK, a haunted house movie that he calls "a very set-oriented, classical but at the same time modern take on the ghost story. It will allow me to play with the conventions of the genre I know and love, and at the same time subvert the old rules."
Del Toro subverting the rules of haunted house movies? I really have no idea what he would have in store, but I'd bet it would be terrifying. I imagine for Legendary Studios to bankroll this that it will likely be along the lines of a PG-13, though Del Toro is throwing around names like THE HAUNTING, Kubrick's THE SHINING, and THE INNOCENTS as inspiration. Apparently his experience with Thomas Tull and the people at Legendary was so good that they happily signed on to Del Toro's spooky project, which he is rewriting at the moment with Lucinda Coxon from an older script he co-wrote with Matthew Robbins (DRAGONSLAYER).
I'm just happy that Del Toro seems to be lining up projects now - he was under a dry spell for a while, even though he never stopped planning for whatever movie he would make next. And don't fret, AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS fans - he's still hoping to get to that project, with Legendary Studios' assistance.
A Guillermo Del Toro haunted house movie. That's something to cheer for.
Nordling, out. Follow me on Twitter!
HEY FOLKS, Harry here...
If this is based on a previous Haunted House script by Del Toro and Matthew Robbins... then folks, hold on to your bowels. I read that script over a decade ago and it was called HELL HOUSE. It was tremendous. It was a script that was never bought out right. Obviously the script would have to lose all of the "Hell House trappings" as that would necessitate making the movie with FOX. Instead, they're taking their characters and trappings which were scary. NORDLING seems to see this as a PG13... and having read that early script - it is possible, but the intensity of the scares might push it to R territory. Guillermo finally making his Haunted House SCARE flick is going to be a very good thing. I just want him to build the House in AUSTIN!
UPDATED: This is completely different material Guillermo tells me from the HELL HOUSE script. CRIMSON PEAK seems to be something entirely new. That's even better in my book. If there's one thing you can trust Guillermo with, it's a spooky tale. Can't wait to see how he breaks the conventions of the genre!
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Wasn't he supposed to be doing a Haunted Mansion reboot for Disney? Whatever happened to that?
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Dec. 3, 2012, 2:50 p.m. CST
Del Toro subverting the rules of haunted house movies-Uh no
by Samuel Fulmer
From every film of his I've seen the guy seems to revel in genre cliches. Not saying this is a bad thing, but this guy isn't Robert Altman.
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Just like he was going to direct the Haunted Mansion, Slaughterhouse Five and Pinocchio.
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The should have gotten Tom Cruise.
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I hate his dialogue. Hate it.
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This could be great, but I'm kind of bummed. Haunted Mansion by GDT would've been a dream come true.
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Best haunted house movie BY FAR. Nothing else even comes close. Trust me, this will not be 1/10th as smart or scary as that film.
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Dec. 3, 2012, 2:55 p.m. CST
I thought I read recently that Disney was happy with the script...
by dark-knight02
maybe we'll get two haunted house movies. That would be amazing.
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Don't expect this to be any different.
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Pinnochio/Haunted Mansion/Hellboy 3/Hulk tv show/Strain tv show Del Toro projects shouldn't be reported on until filmin actually starts, he has such bad luck with projects the last few years that I feel like at this point he just signs onto as many as he can and waits to see which ones don't fall through.
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Dec. 3, 2012, 3 p.m. CST
I'm sure he wan't in the running for STAR WARS, but a Del Toro STAR WARS would have been all kinds of awesome!
by Stereotypical Evil Archer
Where is my AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS?
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Dec. 3, 2012, 3:01 p.m. CST
gruemanlives got Middleton preggers. He wins the geek award this award. Well done, good chap.
by Stereotypical Evil Archer
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Dec. 3, 2012, 3:02 p.m. CST
You can't imagine Disney would be too happy to hear this if he was really solidly attached to make...
by Danny Boil
...their HM reboot. Or maybe not. I don't know. But fuck, I really wanted that to happen. HATBOX GHOST GOTTA EAT.
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"geed award this award" I meant, "this year," but whatevs.
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Dec. 3, 2012, 3:09 p.m. CST
This is not news, any more than news about Lucas' SW TV show was 5 years ago
by Timothy Marcione
GDT has no more credibility regarding his alleged projects in development, until (as another user posted above) they are already filming. Also, a statement such as "He's already going to make the definitive giant-monsters-vs.-robots movie with PACIFIC RIM" is so ignorantly presumptuous. I can't wait to see your expectations be crushed like they were for Cowboys vs. Aliens, another supposedly genre-defining film. Just for once, I'd like to see an editorial saying, "we're sorry for making such stupid statements about a film's quality prior to the film being completed, let alone out viewing it." But I'm sure we can't expect anything along those lines from the guys who simultaneously cream their pants any time one of them has a chance encounter with Morgan Spurlock...
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like previous posters have said, this guy is attached to 10 movies for every 1 he makes. Whats coming out this month? oh ya the hobbit yet another movie he was supposed to be doing. Yet he dropped that for mountains of madness, pinoccio, etc etc etc.
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Is anything he's done really "definitive"? How can you say Pacific Rim is even going to be "definitive"? With GDT, all we know for sure is that Doug Jones will be in it somewhere.
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Dec. 3, 2012, 3:24 p.m. CST
GDT to announce he's NOT working on this film in 3, 2, 1....
by Carmen A
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Wha happened!?
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Dec. 3, 2012, 3:31 p.m. CST
As excited as I am to hear that Guillermo will be making a film in my favorite subgenre, I'm a little disappointed that this likely means the end of the Disney Haunted Mansion project under his helm.
by The Reluctant Austinite
Guillermo is proclaiming the right influences ("The Haunting," "The Legend of Hell House," "The Innocents," etc.), and these films, along with "The Changeling," are some of my favorite haunted house movies. A good haunted house movie just needs to be atmospheric, not gorey, violent or overtly sexual, so a PG-13 rating isn't a problem. I thought Del Toro did a bang up job producing the re-make of "Don't be Afraid of the Dark" last year, so this is great news for old school haunted house fans. Like several others here have already said, the only downside is that I was really looking forward to his Hatbox Ghost Haunted Mansion project and it's likely to get pushed aside because it's too similar in subject matter.
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Or does "Don't Be Afraid of the Dark" not count because he only wrote it and didn't direct?
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Dec. 3, 2012, 3:38 p.m. CST
The Devil's Backbone was a masterpiece, so bring this on!
by sherlock_junior
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Dec. 3, 2012, 3:42 p.m. CST
All his Spanish movies are masterpieces: Cronos, Devils Backbone, Pans Labyrinth
by sherlock_junior
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Dec. 3, 2012, 3:51 p.m. CST
The way Prometheus went, no one would notice the surface similarities to ATMOM
by bah
Do it, GdT
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Dec. 3, 2012, 3:51 p.m. CST
Believe it when I see it. Until then I'll gladly anticipate the release of Pacific Rim.
by Deceased Fan
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Dec. 3, 2012, 3:54 p.m. CST
KATE MIDDLETON'S BABY IS THE MOONCHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIILD sorry I'm rereading The Invisibles
by spacehog
There's still time for it to fastspawn before the 21st!
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less talking, more making
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Dec. 3, 2012, 4:02 p.m. CST
WTF? Definitely will NOT say he's going to make the definitive haunted house movie
by Collin Armstrong
Who knows if he'll even make it. But beyond that, how one would automatically jump to that kind of conclusion is beyond me. Del Toro has shown he can do dark serious fantasy, and has already put down one decent ghost story, but spare us such ridiculous hyperbole AICN. If this happens, it has a long way to go beyond just one man's involvement before it comes close to anything truly special, let alone a definitive work.
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Dec. 3, 2012, 4:07 p.m. CST
Oh yeah. Let's go ahead and crown PACIFIC RIM as a masterpiece, too. Yeesh.
by Collin Armstrong
The only advance word I've seen is from people who were seriously underwhelmed by what has been described as a work print presentation. Did they really see it, are they just trying to stir the shit, who knows... the greater likelihood is that no one has seen it, so how the fuck do you know if it re-writes the book on giant monsters or not? Get off GDT's dick and wait for his new work to confirm or deny its own brilliance.
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Seriously?
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The Invisibles gets me thinking crazy as well...
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Dec. 3, 2012, 4:14 p.m. CST
If I had a nickel every time Guillermo del Toro was attached to something...
by billcom6
I would have a lot of nickels, and a long list of projects that never actually came to fruition.
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...how I loathe hyperbole. Would "The Shining" be considered a haunted house movie? I know it has other things going on, but I think it could be. And if so, do you really thing, dear Nordling, that this proposed film would out-genre-define that? And, how many giant robots versus monster movies are there? I've seen many, many kaiju films—only a few have robots, and most of those are just mechanical versions of the protagonist monsters (e.g. Mecha Kong or Mechagodzilla). So, if there's not really a genre, how could this film define the genre? Or, do you anticipate a half-dozen monsters versus robots movies coming down the pipe after "Pacific Rim?"
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Dec. 3, 2012, 4:26 p.m. CST
I think Del Toro would cheat at arm wrestling. EX: Spit on you or lick your face.
by DementedCaver
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Pretty good?
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Dec. 3, 2012, 4:29 p.m. CST
GDT would only be ABLE to cheat at arm wrestling if they made a custom table to fit his belly!! Then, MAYBE, he could reach your hand, AND spit in your face...
by Timothy Marcione
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Dec. 3, 2012, 4:31 p.m. CST
The bastard son of Tina Knowles and Gwildor the dwarf-thing...
by Timothy Marcione
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I like the guys movies as much as the next, but get off his cock already. Del Toros fans are almost as bad as Nolans.
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Dec. 3, 2012, 4:50 p.m. CST
Del Toro shits on Nolan — Fact! He understands the need for great scripts. Something TDKR needed.
by batfunk
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You like his movies as much as the next yet you think others like his movies too much? You are contradicting yourself.
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Dec. 3, 2012, 5:08 p.m. CST
It's a figure of speech, lickmylovepump. Does it really need to be spelled out for you?
by Jay
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Dec. 3, 2012, 5:09 p.m. CST
I like Del Toro as much as the next guy. Franky 4 Fingers was classic.
by kindofabigdeal
What? Wrong Del Toro you say?
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Dec. 3, 2012, 5:14 p.m. CST
When I read the headline I thought it was based on the Atari 2600 game...
by jgull
Don't rape my childhood!!
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Dec. 3, 2012, 5:22 p.m. CST
I'd rather just see MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS, what gives?!?! Fucking retarded ass studios give money to stupid crap just because it's Chris Nolan or Disney... So sick of this lameness!
by MENTALDOMINANCE
Dark Knight Rises was so terrible I had to shut it off 2 hours in... I paused and noticed it was at like 1:50 and then was like WHAT THE FUCK there is another fucking HOUR of this bullshit? The man has no sense of editing, timing... The score was fucking retarded... BOM! BOM! BOM! Shut the fucking barrel drums up already! Even during the dialog scenes... Like they know their target audience is so A.D.D. they need this intrusive noise going constantly! Imagine if Ridley Scott had got the 200 mill he asked for for PROMETHEUS - It may have actually turned out being a good film! And it was still better than any other over-rated garbage that came out this year, even though it was a disappointment big time due to poor editing really.
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Dec. 3, 2012, 5:24 p.m. CST
Del Toro does child-like quirky fantasy - Hellboy series, Pan's labrynth - but these are no where serious films and they are not disturbing or really great at all.
by MENTALDOMINANCE
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I'll never believe any "Del Toro is directing _____!!!" stories bc he consistently ends up not making them.
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I really want to see a ghost story where ghosts are scary and look evil. The ghost in The Innkeepers was basically a see through chick with make up. I want to see ghosts that are scary, look evil and fuck people up.
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where you at Quint?
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Dec. 3, 2012, 5:38 p.m. CST
Why can't this be the man to bring us a new era of Star Wars?!
by CCon99
I think I know the answer, that they would crush his creative vision for their own, but a girl can dream of THAT Star Wars trilogy.
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Dec. 3, 2012, 5:40 p.m. CST
Nolan and DEl Toro are examples of the fact NO good film makers exist anymore yet people have the need to worship, as if every generation produces auteurs. THEY DON'T. The bar is way too fuckign low.
by MENTALDOMINANCE
No modern director comes close to Kubrik, Scott, Carpenter, Verehoven, Wise, Lynch, etc. in their heydays... So-called film makers are lazy shits today... Half of them don't even believe in choreography! Instead of setting up a scene, they just go "Hey Joe! Go grab a cel-phone quality camera and just run through that crowd. We'll imply with shouting what's goign on." And then someone like Del Toro comes along who does the bare minimum of what used to be considered a prerequisite and everyone is like "He's so great!" But I think Peter Jackson is the most over rated of ALL the new so-called directors. Anyone who likes that hack has zero understanding of film. "Oh but he does lord of the rings crap and we like that so regardless of how poor the movies are, we support them because of name alone!" Jackson doesn't even CARE if shit looks real, his movies are like SHREK - CGI that doesn't even try to hide that it's CGI, the SAME STUPID CAMERA MOVEMENT - I could not believe he used that fuckign cgi camera movement in HOBBIT trailers even... It looks like fucking crap and anyone into it just has lowered standards so they don't EXPECT MORE because they're too young to remember back when MORE WAS OFFERED. He couldn't even take a GIVEN HIT of an idea, a crude puppet movie, and make it good - Feebles was even stupid and boring and how can you fuck something like that up? But he did it! And it was still better than his CGI shitfest LOTR crap...
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Excellent ghost movie that's disturbing in non-ghost ways.
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$!%&*!
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Peter Jackson & Christopher Nolan - They have had COUNTLESS chances, huge budgets, and other things handed to them yet they have still failed in making anything worth shit. Give someone else a chance! ANYONE who uses shaky cam ANYONE who even considers making a "found footage" "movie" ANYONE who can't even compose a scene coherently and relies on people shouting about what's going on, ala. Battle L.A. - like they're making a movie for blind people because if you didn't have audio you'd have no fucking clue what was happening.... Fincher - Yeah I know people think he's a God but the last few things he's done fucking SUCK. I like Fight Club and The Game though but those were older with older sensibilities before he figured "Why bother? I can make shit movies that will sell better than my good movies!" "Remakers" who shit on the legacy of good films by using their titles to make up for the fact that they can not do anything original and can not make good films so they need to cheat. (And no, Carpenter's THE THING is not a remake morons... The last REMAKE which was superb was done in 1978 by Phillip Kaufman.) Directors who don't try to disguise the porno quality shot on digital look that seems to be EVERYWHERE and only makes your so-called "movie" look like "TV".
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Dec. 3, 2012, 5:55 p.m. CST
Oh and add Sam Raimi to that list... Spiderman was shit and again, lazy full rendered cgi humans instead of real actors so you're always taken OUT of it and it never feels real.
by MENTALDOMINANCE
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Dec. 3, 2012, 5:57 p.m. CST
Are we really sure GDT is still attached to Pacific Rim?
by Domi'sInnerChild
You know, IMDB can lie.
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Get the tissues out.
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At the Mountains of Madness.
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MAKE. IT. HAPPEN. BEFORE. RON. SNUFFS. IT.
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No one's going to compare it to that soup sandwich known as PROMETHEUS.
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In fact he's directing every future movie to come out, that is until they announce someone else as director, or that those movies aren't being made at all.
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What has this guy done? Pan's Labryinth was pretty good. Fantasy during the Spanish Civil War. Gotcha. Some nice socio-political backdrop for a charming and mysterious fantasy tale. Hellboy? Who cares. Mimic? Trash. Blade 2? Who cares. Adherence to practical effects? Ok pass. Uh..so what else is there? We already unfortunately have a Tim Burton. We already have overly-busy designs loaded with whimsy and passive aggressive dark aesthetic. Seriously. The guy is good. He's a decent filmmaker, but who are these "fans"? Who? He's above average. Nothing more. Why does he deserve such high regard, especially..ESPECIALLY after the levels of hate a Cameron or dare I say Lucas gets around these parts. I mean...you hate on Cameron/Avatar.....but this guy gets a pass? Are you fucking with me.
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is correct.
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...don't forget, Peter Jackson is just a Sam Raimi clone.
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I saw an ad for it last night. That was the first I saw about it. Looks creepy as hell. It's "Presented" by GDT so who knows how much he was really involved. Has anyone heard anything about it?
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... Then Del Toro can go fuck himself. Is been dragging his ass on that project since it was announced, EXCEPT when he goes to Imagineering looking for art to work from. Seriously, It better be a proper Haunted Mansion flick... anything else is unacceptable to me!
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starring Ron Perlman as Depp and Johnny Depp as Helena Bonham Carter. Hopefully he'll have time between making Spinning Tea Cups the movie and Hungry Hungry Hippos. I mean seriously, he has been attached to 50 movies in the last few year. He's produced some, "consulted" on some and even did a voice part in Puss n' Boots but none of these cool GDT movies ever happen. I don't think he's actually a real person.
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... and really wish he finishes the trilogy. I really adore the first 2, especially the 2nd.
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Dec. 3, 2012, 7:43 p.m. CST
What happened to the article The Kid wrote trashing the idea of GDT wasting his time on a haunted house movie?
by lox4444
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Fantastic movies! If Del Toro does something like those I will be there with bells on.
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Even though the tone is somewhat harsh, there is a lot of truth in his rantings.
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Dec. 3, 2012, 8:07 p.m. CST
GDT is also directing remakes of It Happened One Night, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, Moonstruck, and 2001: A Space Oddyssey. And they're ALL going to redefine their genres!
by Timothy Marcione
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Dec. 3, 2012, 8:17 p.m. CST
And MentalDominance continues his trend of sounding like a bitter old man
by D.Vader
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was really xcited 4 it.
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Dec. 3, 2012, 8:25 p.m. CST
I want to make a joke about Eddie Murphy's Haunted Mansion, but I got nothing.
by hank henshaw
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...that God-awful Jan de Bont debacle.
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Dec. 3, 2012, 10:31 p.m. CST
Chances of this actually being made: one in twenty
by Nasty In The Pasty
Del Toro is as bad as Tarantino when it comes to announcing projects he will NEVER, EVER make. Fuck, I just want to see Hellboy III before the cast gets too old. Hell, Selma Blair is already over 40...
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Anyone want to lay bets? Sorry, GDT, Hollywood has finally realized nothing you film - nothing you touch, really - makes a profit. Can't wait to see the returns on PACIFIC RIM come in at around $10-$30 million opening weekend, you know, like everything else you've done.
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We're clearly both on the same page. Nice!
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Dec. 3, 2012, 11:11 p.m. CST
cobb05 - I hated CABIN IN THE WOODS but you're right, that ghost was horrifying
by Nintendarth
It moved like a wasp, and the way it made those one word sounds as it jerked around like NO! NO! Ohhh! It was positively freaky. You got the sense it would rip the crap out of you in three seconds. I felt it was the scariest monster in the flick, no sarcasm here.
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Was it my imagination or did every monster also have one critical weakness that could be figured out? When you see that in the Japanese setting they conquered it and turned it into a frog (in the best scene of the movie, hilarious and tonally more where the entire movie should have been IMO), it seemed like there'd be such a key to escape for everyone. Like, if they kept reading the book there'd be a section on the back page or under the spine revealing how to defeat the zombies.
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Dec. 3, 2012, 11:16 p.m. CST
This guy produces a project every five minutes. So tired of seeing his name in front of movies he hasn't directed.
by Christian Sylvain
Get back to work!
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With everything that has come out about it, from the storyline to the early promo/viral stuff, etc., that thing has bust written all over it. I feel pretty bad for him, actually. Could be a career-killer.
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Dec. 4, 2012, 1:03 a.m. CST
PACIFIC RIM -will- destroy GDT's career, Aceldama. And I will stand on a hill and play the fiddle.
by Nintendarth
And cackle from time to time. The guy has been coasting off some kind of illusory nerd-glory his entire career. He has never had a hit. He has never been successful. And yet he keeps getting paid. The beginning of the end for his career was his hubris in trying to get AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS made, and Hollywood stared him down and said NO! NO! NO! Just like Hollywood stared down TINTIN and said NO! NO! NO! and then it got made anyway to nobody's interest. Increasingly, audiences everywhere are standing up and shouting down the loud nerd contingent and pointing out these films never make any money.
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YOU WILL RECEIVE A PAY LOAD OF HELTER SKELTER MISSILES ON THE FACE FROM A MECHA COCK. fact?
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And every other film he's got lined up and his HULK TV show.
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Dec. 4, 2012, 1:46 a.m. CST
I'll bet a nice a few site administrators here who wouldn't mind receiving a Pacific Rim JOB from GDT.
by Timothy Marcione
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You're the type of clueless fan who would have GDT direct a G.I.Joe film. "He'd be the perfect fit!!"
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Who's seen this yet? Oh thats right. Nobody. It has 2 things going for it: Idris Elba and the premise. Well the premise could go either way. It's about execution. PR could be fantastic or it could be hammy shit.
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I'd remain cautious about hyping up PR too much.
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Seriously that movie was fucking cool.
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Dec. 4, 2012, 6:19 a.m. CST
Pan's Labyrinth is his only GOOD film, and because of that he can't do no wrong?
by mutombo
Seriously, have you people checked his older Spanish films out? I stopped watching Devils Backbone because it was flat-out not interesting, not scary, nothing at all. A ghost film that doesn't have ANY mystery? Then there's his vampire film, which I hope was not meant to be scary, because it absolutely wasn't. It was entertaining enough, and a fresh take on the myth, I'll give you that. His Hellboy films were cookie-cutter Hollywood crap. I didn't care for them at all. Seriously, I don't understand the love those films have been getting. I remember liking Mimic though, although that's been a while. And I absolutely loves Pan's Labyrinth like everyone else. But it seems to me, that since Pans Labyrinth, he's everyone's favorite golden boy who can do no wrong... and I must disagree with that. He's a director who makes entertaining films, but he's definitely not the genius everyone makes him out to be.
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Still my dream-movie.
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Like OMG Pacific Rim is a CLASSIC and Crimson Peak is my FAVORITE movie!
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Dec. 4, 2012, 7:56 a.m. CST
I stopped watching Devils Backbone because it was flat-out not interesting, not scary, nothing at all. A ghost film that doesn't have ANY mystery?
by bah
Sorry, I don't believe you based on that statement. Are you sure you got past the coming attractions?
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That reptile sperm will give you real bad morning sickness all right. And all those hating on GDT, he gave us Blade 2 so for that he gets a free pass on anything. I believe Pacific Rim will be the shit.
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Dec. 4, 2012, 8:13 a.m. CST
ninetendarth: I know! Like how they shouted down Dredd 3D. I haven't seen Cloud Atlas but it got shouted down too. I could still see here comes the boom though cause it's still in theaters. Cause
by UltraTron
general audiences love a good face fuck from a shit covered kathulu Satan cock.
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Dec. 4, 2012, 11:40 a.m. CST
Mr. Beaks' brilliant description of the ACN staff "...a never-ending legion of goblins (led by their grotesque, testicle-chinned king)..."
by Timothy Marcione
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The man who promised us a Hobbit; a trip into the "Mountains Of Madness",but only to find out, he doesn't have much going on anyway - except for rimming the pacific; elitist generism if ever i'd seen it. Would love more of his personal work, like the brilliant "Pan's Labyrinth" - or is that too much to ask!
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CP is not Hell House at all. Nothing could be further from that. CP is a spec script Matthew and I wrote right after Pan's Labyrinth. It stayed mostly under the radar but I have been pushing it quietly. Universal has been very supportive and wanted to do it. It's set at the turn of the century and it is a Gothic romance with ghosts. When I use the GR term I use it not in the Barbara Cartland model but rather in a Bronte fashion. Dark and stormy and wind-swept. This is my first foray into horror since Sci-Fi/Horror Mimic. DBB was more of an essay on ghosts than a ghost story and, except as producer, I have not returned to scary stuff in a long time. Glad you guys are jazzed. So am I!! Best GDT GDT Posts: 145 Joined: Fri Feb 11, 2011 1:04 pm Top
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Dec. 4, 2012, 1:34 p.m. CST
re: "I want to make a joke about Eddie Murphy's Haunted Mansion, but I got nothing."
by jim
Just like the writers of Eddie Murphy's Haunted Mansion.
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He's made some films I thought were alright. And that's it. Basically every filmmaker we bitch about on talkbacks has at least one definitive masterpiece, and we are usually complaining about lesser works. GDT has nothing that I would consider a classic. Nothing even close.
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Damnit already!
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Already.
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I can wait.
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Eddie Murphy's HAUNTED MANSION was a joke unto itself. What a fucking creative misfire. Along the lines of the SCOOBY DOO feature film. Films made by filmmakers that had NO FUCKING CLUE what made the source material work.
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Dec. 4, 2012, 4:28 p.m. CST
Pan's Labyrinth is a masterpiece, it gives him a pass for life.
by Randy
He's a visual master, just as good as Jackson or anybody else, he just never really has a script worthy of him. Besides Pan's Labyrinth, one of the best films of the decade easily. The man has greatness in him, wish he would have done The Hobbit.
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a baby will come out of it.
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When he started out in Hollywood, he lived in Cameron's guest house. They are best friends in real life also. For years apparently. I like the guy, but I don't think he's really done anything YET that validates all the worship. I'm not rooting for him to fail, but I also don't see why he deserves the praise.
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I like Guillermo as much as the next guy...but PLEASE stop prematurely spooging all over the guy by saying he will make the DEFINITIVE Giant Robot movie AND the DEFINITIVE Haunted House movie BEFORE they are even friggin released!!! I'm all for fanboy love....but COME ON. That's just retarded. Say you are excited for these movies, but don't proclaim them the definitive ANYTHING yet ok? You just sound like a fucking idiot.
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Dec. 4, 2012, 8:14 p.m. CST
The GDT produced remake of Don't Be Afraid of the Dark SUCKED by the way!
by Cinemajerk
Seriously. It was sooo bad. From the crappy CG monsters to making the lead a little kid. The original TV movie blew it away in EVERY way. I was so disappointed. Especially after hearing that GDT like me was such a huge fan of the original. He totally fucked it up.
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He only wrote the screenplay.
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I desperately want to wash the bad taste of that godawful Eddie Murphy movie out of my eyes/ears/mouth. When I heard Guillermo was making the Haunted Mansion movie I had a raging geek boner. I'm having to take massive amounts of Viagra at this point to keep it up as I haven't heard much since the announcement months? a year? however long ago that was...You would think Disney would be all over this but sadly now that they have Star Wars, this is probably going to get back burnered because the merchandising potential of Star Wars is going to precede all else....Dammit!!!
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There's a nasty-ass murderous ghost, plus a horrible monster, other worlds, a spooky haunted house, child-sacrifice and The Great Old Ones from Lovecraft.
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Dec. 5, 2012, 5:37 a.m. CST
Can there be a better Haunted House movie than "The Shining"?
by gabbygall
That will take some doing.
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Dec. 5, 2012, 1:53 p.m. CST
A haunted house movie eh? Good to see Del Toro 'branching out' and doing something unexpected.
by DoctorWho?
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