10 Unrealized Guillermo Del Toro Projects That Couldve Been Great
10 Unrealized Guillermo Del Toro Projects That Could’ve Been Great
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With Pan’s Labyrinth and The Shape of Water, director Guillermo del Toro is one of Hollywood’s best visionaries. But not all his projects came to be.
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With movies like Pan’s Labyrinth and The Shape of Water, Guillermo del Toro has made a name for himself as one of the most revered and fascinating filmmakers working today. Whenever he announces a new project, fans get excited. But he also has a reputation for announcing projects that he never actually gets around to making.
In some cases, del Toro has envisioned a project that’s so ambitious and out there that Hollywood studios have gotten cold feet. In other cases, he’s lost interest in one project and focused his efforts on another one. There are tons of unproduced del Toro projects that could’ve been awesome.
10 Hellboy III
Guillermo del Toro was interested in finishing his Hellboy trilogy with a threequel about the title character coming to terms with his destiny to become the beast of the apocalypse and defending humanity from the end-times. Ron Perlman was more than willing to return to the role.
Despite the fact that Hellboy III was scrapped in favor of an R-rated Hellboy reboot (which ended up being a crushing disappointment), Perlman has said that he’d still love to complete his trilogy with del Toro.
9 Halo
In 2008, del Toro entered negotiations to direct a movie adaptation of the Halo games. However, the project was called off when the director turned his sights onto his adaptation of The Hobbit, which was also ultimately unrealized.
There have been plenty of failed attempts at Halo movies — with filmmakers ranging from Alex Garland to Neill Blomkamp taking a crack at it — while a TV adaptation is set to air on Showtime in 2021.
8 Beauty And The Beast
Del Toro was once interested in directing a live-action version of Beauty and the Beast. Interestingly, the director’s top choice to play Belle was Emma Watson, who ended up playing the role in Disney’s live-action remake of its classic animated adaptation of the fairy tale.
Denise Di Novi was set to produce del Toro’s adaptation, but it never came to fruition. It surely would’ve been a lot darker than the Disney movie.
7 The Hulk
In 2012, Guillermo del Toro began work on a TV series about the Hulk, aptly titled The Hulk, that was to air on ABC and take place within the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
However, the project was put on hold after The Avengers hit theaters and Mark Ruffalo’s performance was lauded by critics as the best on-screen Bruce Banner to date.
6 Meat Market: A Love Story
In the ‘90s, del Toro wrote an original romance screenplay called Meat Market: A Love Story. He described the project as “Hamlet in a meat market, by the way of Phantom of the Opera.”
The director was interested in casting Ron Perlman in the lead role, but gave up on the project when he felt Perlman had become too old for the part.
5 The Haunted Mansion
After seeing The Haunted Mansion starring Eddie Murphy with his kids, Guillermo del Toro became interested in directing a remake. He doesn’t think the story should be set in a normal world where one haunted house happens to exist; he wanted to set his version in a heightened reality.
Del Toro was aiming for a PG-13 rating and wanted to be more faithful to the original Disneyland ride than the original movie. Ryan Gosling was once in talks to star in the movie, but nothing has come of it.
4 3993
After directing The Devil’s Backbone and Pan’s Labyrinth, which both deal with the Spanish Civil War, del Toro planned to helm a spiritual sequel to the latter entitled 3993 that would complete his Spanish Civil War trilogy.
However, the movie never got off the ground as del Toro focused his efforts on Hellboy II: The Golden Army instead. Pan’s Labyrinth is arguably del Toro’s masterpiece, so it would’ve been great to see a sequel.
3 The Hobbit
When a big-budget film adaptation of The Hobbit was first in development at Warner Bros., Guillermo del Toro was going to direct it as a two-parter. But he ultimately left the project in Peter Jackson’s hands in 2010.
The studio was more interested in replicating the success of The Lord of the Rings trilogy, so executives stretched out the relatively slim novel across an epic trilogy with huge battle sequences every few minutes.
2 Frankenstein
An adaptation of Mary Shelley’s seminal science fiction novel Frankenstein has always been one of del Toro’s passion projects. Universal’s Donna Langley once approached the director about helming such a project, but it never materialized.
Nothing concrete has ever been announced about this project, but del Toro has said that if he ever does make a Frankenstein movie, he’ll focus on it solely and not work on any other projects during its production.
1 At The Mountains Of Madness
One of del Toro’s foremost influences is H.P. Lovecraft. He was once working on a big-budget adaptation of Lovecraft’s iconic sci-fi horror novella At the Mountains of Madness with James Cameron attached as a producer. Cameron wanted to cast Tom Cruise in the lead role.
Unfortunately, an R-rated movie with an inflated budget, a period setting, no romantic subplot, and an ambiguous ending was a tough sell to big Hollywood studios, so getting the project greenlit was a tough challenge. Del Toro eventually scrapped the project after Ridley Scott’s Prometheus tackled a lot of the same themes.
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