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Guillermo del Toro is still attach to the forthcoming remaking ofFantastic Voyage- despite his plans to take a twelvemonth off from directing . The filmmaker is presently enjoying rave reviews ( and intense awards buzz ) for his movieThe Shape of Water . This amorous fairytale features a mute char falling in love with a humanoid Pisces animate being , and the film is already being dubbed del Toro ’s masterpiece .
The Shape of Wateris del Toro ’s first movie sincePacific Rimand follows the director ’s pattern of realize a smaller , more personal movie after a big blockbuster . In the past , he ’s followedMimicwithThe Devil ’s Backbone , andHellboywithPan ’s Labyrinth . The director recently announced he was get a pause from directing and was going to focalize on promotingThe Shape Of Waterfor the fourth dimension being .
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He talked about his reason for taking time off in an interview withCollider , and also give an update on the condition ofFantastic Voyage . He ’s still attach to direct the sci - fi escapade , and there ’s even a start date pencil in for the movie :
“ That was on the calendar already . I announce the year in September , and if everything pass well and it happens , it would happen next September . We ’d bulge prepping again . We had already delayed it . It is a very hard movie , technically , and I needed to figure out a bunch of stuff . We ’ve been doing R&D and we ’ve been building stuff . I never cognise whether they ’re going to happen or not . I ’ve get a line that , in 25 yr . But , we ’re still working on it . ”
Hopefully , Fantastic Voyagewill finally move ahead with del Toro still seize , but fans have learned its best to be careful . At the rootage of 2017 del Toro announcedHellboy IIIwas definitely never bechance , and a reboot star David Harbour was afterwards reassert . The filmmaker also spent a year developing a two - part adaptation ofThe Hobbit , only to leave and be substitute by manufacturer Peter Jackson - and the mere acknowledgment of cancel sequelSilent Hillsis enough to bring a tear to the eye of video secret plan fans .
Fantastic Voyageis a project that ’s been in development for years , with directors like Roland Emmerich , Paul Greengrass , and James Cameron attached at unlike points ( Cameron is still onboard the project as producer ) . Cameron and del Toro have been friends for many years and previously tried to mount an ambitious , R - range take on H.P. Lovecraft’sAt The Mountains Of Madnessstarring Tom Cruise . Sadly , the cost involved wound up killing that task before it could set about . Hopefully , Fantastic Voyagewon’t stop up the same way of life .
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