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With his Venice Film FestivalGolden Lion - winningfantasy - dramaThe Shape of Waterpoised to make some further noise during awards season , director Guillermo del Toro says he needs a shift from the grind of Hollywood and will take a class off from directing . Del Toro had been set to begin work on an adaptation of the ' LX action - fantasyFantastic Voyage , a labor that has already seen its portion of hold and problems during a long period in development hell .
Del Toro ’s Modern filmThe Shape of Wateris gain critical raves , with many hailing it as the director ’s good work since his masterpiecePan ’s Labyrinth . Sally Hawkins stars as a mute janitor lick at a privy government installation who strikes up an strange kinship with a lonely ocean creature being held there . Among other thing , the filmbreaks fresh groundin depicting human being - on - sea - creature sex .
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During a round - table discussion in Morelia , Mexico , Guillermo del Toro talked at length about his program beyondThe Shape of Water , including his want to get away from the grind for for a while . Del Toro said viaVariety :
“ I ’m taking a sabbatical for a year as a music director . I was go to do ‘ howling Voyage , ’ but after ‘ The Shape of Water ’ I need to take suspension . ”
Fantastic Voyagehad alreadybeen delayedonce so del Toro could cease up shootingThe Shape of Water , but expectation were that he would commence work on the pic at some distributor point in 2018 . If del Toro sticks with his design to kick back back for a yr , Fantastic Voyagewill have to expect for him or notice another film director . The James Cameron - give rise project already has passed through the hand of multiple possible directors over the years , including Roland Emmerich , Paul GreengrassandShawn Levy .
Though he wo n’t be getting behind the camera himself in 2018 , Del Toro still has plenty of labor he ’ll be working on from behind - the - scenes . These include two project he and prospicient - sentence producing collaborator Bertha Navarro are " studying . " Del Toro say one potential project would team up him with Mexican director Patricia Riggen , whose mine - catastrophe filmThe 33picked up some award , and who is next slated to direct several episodes of Amazon ’s spy seriesTom Clancy ’s Jack Ryan . Del Toro also tease some word coming in the next few weeks aboutseason 2of his Netflix exalt showTrollhunters .
Most interestingly if you ’re a hard-core del Toro fan , the director say he is committed to finishing the script for his long - conceive filmSilver , about a Mexican wrestler who finds out all politician are vampires and sets about hit them . With a year off from directing , maybe del Toro will knuckle down and finishing writingSilver . Or perhaps he will draw up something novel and wondrous from the depths of his prolific , impractical resourcefulness . We do have sex hewon’t be tacklinganotherHellboyfilm , as the enfranchisement has been handed off to Neil Marshall for bring up .
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origin : Variety
