With Frankenstein completed, Guillermo del Toro already has his next creative ventures lined up. Speaking to Inverse, the Oscar-winning filmmaker revealed an unexpected interest in adapting The Phantom of the Opera:
It’s such a classic tale but I would do it differently. I have a couple of ideas but for now, I’m going into crime and stop-motion.
Del Toro’s stop-motion project is The Buried Giant, a Netflix adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel. The other is a crime drama titled Fury, starring Oscar Isaac, a sharp turn in tone for the director.
It’s about two men that regret very different pasts, and they basically travel together in a journey while killing people, and they talk. It’s my ‘Dinner with Andre’ with a bunch of murder […] I want it to be daylight and all dolly and zoom shots and no cranes. I’m scared. I’m trying to scare myself into doing it.
he told The Canadian Press.
Fury could also land at Netflix, where del Toro has an overall deal that has produced Pinocchio, Cabinet of Curiosities, and Frankenstein. The filmmaker recently told Empire Magazine that Frankenstein marks “the end of an era” a shift away from grand, operatic fantasy toward more intimate storytelling.
Source: World of Reel
