Guillermo Del Toro has confirmed in an interview with british movie magazine Empire that he has been having talks with Peter Jackson, Bungie and Universal. He states:
“Well, Halo is very much an interesting project because it’s so full of monsters,” he said. “It’s a big temptation. I’m in talks with them [Universal and Bungie Films] and Peter, but it’s not true that it’s on and Hellboy’s off. Hellboy’s on. If everything goes as planned, Hellboy will go.”
He goes on to discuss why he likes Halo, in very brief fashion:
“Most of the time games don’t have an universe or creatures that interest me enough. And this one does. Master Chief [Halo’s mysterious hero] is such an iconic character and it’s very much a sort of a good version of [Hellboy villain] Kroenen.”
My personal opinion is that this man would ruin the movie. Both Hellboy and Mimic were lackluster average films that started with great concepts and ended up as addled rubbish, despite stellar casts. That atrocious Paul W.S. Anderson fan boy fetishism just oozes from him. The sacrifice of storyline and arc development for poorly scripted and poorly executed CGI action-scenes is a trap just waiting for Halo. Del Toro will be right there to give it that final cattle prod of death. Del Toro, please stick to Hellboy 2 and move on.
Comments 3 Responses to “Guillermo confirms his interest”
Are you completely daft? Del Toro would be excellent for this. Have you no sense of taste? Hellboy was great, the sequal is spectacular, Pan’s Labrynth was amazing. Other than Mimic, you have no real basis for not wanting him on this. And unless he wrote the script for Mimic then you really do have nothing. This man is keeping CGI where it needs to be, as an addative and not the only form of special effects. His use of costumes and animatronics is, to say the least, the best ever. I don’t know if he would be the absolute best for Halo, but he would most definately not be the tragedy you make him out to be.
Haha, the foundations of these comments were made on the qualities of the original Hell Boy and Mimic, which I still stand by as terrible movies. Since 2005 Guillermo has really come along as a director. Pan’s Labyrinth was incredible, the Orphanage was thrilling and Hellboy II is meant to be excellent also. Perhaps he is at last being given the free reigns to do what he wants, rather than suffer the manipulations of studios.
Looking at it again, I think I was pretty harsh, though I am very happy to be corrected this time around. Having seen Pan’s Labyrinth, Del Toro’s interpretation of The Flood would I’m sure be nothing short of incredible.
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