Questions For Guillermo del Toro?

[WIL]

I have been invited to Time's TimesTalk tomorrow. I'm not sure what to make of it since I have never been, but if I get one question I will ask it. Anyone have any suggestions?

I can't make Wes Craven because I plan to be in L.A. by then.



WES CRAVEN

GUILLERMO DEL TORO

are among those scheduled to appear at

THE NEW YORK TIMES FALL ‘TIMESTALKS’

AT THE TIMESCENTER

 

 

This fall, some of the brightest names in film, television, theater, books, popular music, technology and culinary arts will sit down with New York Times journalists for TimesTalks events at TheTimesCenter, 242 West 41st Street in New York City. Participants include restaurateurs Donatella Arpaia, Heston Blumenthal, Ken Friedman and Danny Meyer; writer and humorist Roy Blount, Jr.; Food Network creator/producer/host/author Alton Brown; celebrated chefs Daniel Boulud, Bobby Flay, Jose Garces, Masaharu Morimoto, Rene Redzepi, Jean-Georges Vongerichten and Michael White; “Nightmare on Elm Street” and “Scream” director Wes Craven; author/director/writer/producer Guillermo del Toro; writer/director/producer Nora Ephron; award-winning actor James Earl Jones; humorist and radio personality Garrison Keillor;  award-winning singer-songwriter Natalie Merchant; author Lemony Snicket with illustrator Maira Kalman; actress/ playwright/professor Anna Deavere Smith; Tony, Grammy, Oscar and Pulitzer Prize winning composer lyricist Stephen Sondheim; former United States Foreign Service diplomat Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV; from The New York Times, magazine writer Frank Bruni; culture reporter Patricia Cohen; theater reporter Patrick Healy; food writer Julia Moskin; chief pop music critic Jon Pareles; technology columnist David Pogue; Op-Ed columnist Frank Rich; food writer Kim Severson; Op-Ed editor David Shipley; dining editor Pete Wells; and theater critic Jason Zinoman.

[Johnny Truant]

Ask him how much fun he had making Mimic.

[WIL]

Too late!

[JBirdman13]

Was it enjoyable? I personally have loved to meet Wes.

[WIL]

Wes is next month. It was enjoyable, only because Toro was interesting and sometimes funny. I ran out as soon as it was over because I needed to get home. I didn't follow up on the press stuff.

Some guy sat next to me (there were plenty of open seats) and he kept talking to me. He was from L.A. so he gave me his e-mail so we could have "coffee" which we all know means hot gaysexual homo-sex! 

[WIL]

The most interesting thing to me was that he said he wanted to adapt It and [b/Pet Semetary[/b].

Here are some quotes from the event.

Toro discusses H.P. Lovecraft  At the Mountains of Madness:

“We’ve been designing for the last 3-weeks. It’s being produced by James Cameron, who’s been a friend for 20-years,” del Toro said, “We have avoided working together until the time came for the right project. Obviously, the difference between the novella and the movie is that Lovecraft had a gift for making everything specifically ambiguous. He would say ‘the leering face loaded with madness,’ or ‘the evil perverse entity of unnamable’… everything was unnamable, indescribable. When you’re reading you go,’Whoa!’ your brain fills those spaces. For every creature, everyone has a secret mental image of what those creatures look like. It’s going to be impossible to please everyone.”

“I’ve been thinking of those monsters for twenty years. Fortunately for me no one has done monsters like the ones I’m doing. In all the movies ever made there’s never been monsters like the ones we’re doing. About two weeks ago we were visited by Dennis Muren. He looked at the designs, and he turned to us and said, ‘No one has seen monsters like this ever.’ I was like, [boyish grin] ‘Yeah!’ I was happy and vindicated and all that. “

[Johnny Truant]

I am so glad he is FINALLY making "At the Mountains of Madness".  I could never get through reading that damn story, but I do love me some Lovecraft.

[WIL]

Not excited for a Toro It?

[Johnny Truant]

A what now?

[WIL]

He wants to remake Stephen King's IT. I'm not a huge fan of his, but I think he would be a great person to do it.

[Johnny Truant]

Ohh ok.  It would be pretty cool, but IT has already been made.  Not that an update would hurt anything.  But I've been waiting for him to FINALLY do  "At the Mountains of Madness" for a long while now and it's finally happening. 

Keep in mind as well that it might be another 10 - 15 years before he makes IT at the rate he is going.  He has all other kinds of shit he plans to film.  I really want him to do the Haunted Mansion movie next.

[WIL]

Keep in mind as well that it might be another 10 - 15 years before he makes IT at the rate he is going. 

I know but I knew all the articles would be about the Lovecraft movie, so I took something he said at the end and I'm running with it. Even though I hate three hour epic director masturbation movies. I think IT would be great as one. I don't really need to see another version of Frankenstein or Mr. Hyde. Or any classic monster movie to be honest.

[Johnny Truant]

I wouldn't mind the remakes, something has to be done to make Universal realize how bad Van Helsing and The Mummy movies are.

[WIL]

I wouldn't mind the remakes, something has to be done to make Universal realize how bad Van Helsing and The Mummy movies are.

It's just like comic books. Every few years a new writer comes along and tells you how he is going to do something new that has never been done before, and winds up doing the same thing while ruining something good. I'm not saying that Toro is going to do that, but I just can't pee my pants and get excited over his version of Frankenstein. Especially after he rambled on about creating monsters that have never been done before then said he is making a remake of a amusement park ride, and Frankenstein.

Fuck Frankenstein, fuck you, and fuck the New York Times.

[Johnny Truant]

Fuck you and fuck your fucking balls!