Guillermo Del Toro is involved in enough projects at this point that he’s booked for almost the next decade. As everyone knows, he’s set to write and direct “The Hobbit,” then Universal has him tapped for remakes of “Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde” and “Frankenstein” as well as an adaptation of “Drood” by Dan Simmons. Last but not least, Del Toro also plans to direct an adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut’s “Slaughterhouse Five” which is supposed to be more faithful to the novel than the 1972 film. As if that wasn’t enough, Del Toro is also trying to secure interest to adapt “At the Mountains of Madness” by H.P. Lovecraft for the big screen.
Don’t you feel lazy now? All of these projects sound like they could be cool, though I have my doubts about yet another film about Frankenstein or Jekyll and Hyde. The one that really sounds interesting is “Slaughterhouse Five.” Del Toro’s one of maybe three directors I can think of that could do a faithful adaptation of that book without totally tossing the whole alien abduction and Kilgore Trout angle.
