del Toro has this week revealed a list of possible or shelved projects for which he has finished screenplays, in addition to the Mountains of Madness project that everyone already knows about…
SECRET PROJECT (UNTITLED)
SUPERSTITIOUS [at a guess – old school superstitions, such as ‘throw salt over your shoulder for luck’, become ‘real’ in some way?]
NIGHTMARE ALLEY [perhaps his Water-like take on the 1947 film noir set in a seedy carnival?]
HAUNTED MANSION [apparently a movie to be built around the Disney theme park attraction?]
THE HULK pilot [TV reboot]
THE BURIED GIANT [live-action sequel to The Iron Giant? or perhaps a movie of the great children’s book The Giant Under the Snow?]
THE COFFIN [? my complete guess would be a traditional Poe-style horror, with many del Toro twists?]
DROOD [presumably his take on Dickens’s The Mystery of Edwin Drood?]
LIST OF 7 (Mark Frost) [apparently it’s a 1993 occult murder mystery novel in the Sherlock vein, but one that spirals up and out into a sort of wild theosophical da Vinci Code. Sounds fun, though it seems there’s no graphic novel which is a pity. Not even an audiobook, other than a 1993 cassette-tape edition.]
Drood is a novel by Dan Simmons (I enjoyed it very much), about the relationship between Wilkie Collins and Dickens, with some supernatural/hallucinatory goings on. Del Toro is mentioned as directing an adaptation of it on the book’s Wikipedia page. And I’m wondering if The Buried Giant might be an adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel.
Thanks for the Drood information.
Yes I thought about Ishiguro’s “The Buried Giant”, but that just didn’t seem very ‘del Toro’ to me.
I agree. I wasn’t a great fan of Ishiguro’s novel.