Cult director Guillermo Del Toro (Hellboy, Pacific Rim) is no stranger to the San Diego Comic-Con, he’s been here wowing audiences with his films for many years now. Saturday in the largest hall, Del Toro was in attendance talking to a standing room only crowd about his latest genre project, the gothic horror film Crimson Peak.
Del Toro, along with Legendary Pictures head Thomas Tull premiered electric and ambitious first-look footage from his gothic romance Crimson Peak.
The Oscar nominee is finishing the haunted-house pic Crimson Peak still 18 months away from release with stars Mia Wasikowska, Tom Hiddleston, Charlie Hunnam, and Jessica Chastain. The moody, richly gothic teaser unveiled in Hall H impressed, and del Toro drew cheers when he explained how he and co-writer Matthew Robbins envisioned Wasikowska’s character Edith Cushing. “I wanted to tackle a great adult story for a female lead,” he said. “Let us see her live past getting the guy — f*** that shit. Let us see her become her own person.”
Del Toro also polled the huge crowd in attendance asking if they’d like to see another sequel to his Hellboy films. “Hellboy 3? They’re listening! At The Mountains of Madness?” Both passion pics are in hot demand with the filmmaker’s fans, who unleashed deafening screams of support.
Will these films ever be made? Up next for del Toro is Pacific Rim 2, so are Tull and Legendary also onboard? ”When you’re done with PacRim 2, we’ll talk,” Tull answered onstage minutes later.
Del Toro was close to getting his passion project, H.P. Lovecraft’s At The Mountains Of Madness off the ground a few years ago with Universal, but the project stalled because del Toro wouldn’t budge on the possibility of bringing the film in with an R rating.
Fans would be very excited if these films ever come to fruition and I have to say I would too. We’ll have to wait and see what happens. If Crimson Peak and Pacific Rim 2 do well for the studio, then I would say del Toro will have enough clout to get these made.
Source: Deadline
