Here is a list of projects Guillermo del Toro has been said to be currently working on:
- His Mia Wasikowska-fronted Gothic horror film Crimson Peak comes to theaters on October 16 of this year, with a couple of trailers to prove it.
- He’s got a sequel to last year’s neo-kaiju spectacle Pacific Rim currently in the works, shooting for a premiere on April 7, 2017.
- Back in 2010, del Toro announced that he’d direct a Haunted Mansion film, and approached Ryan Gosling for the lead earlier this year. Del Toro’s Haunted Mansion would be more of a direct adaptation of the popular thrill ride at Disney’s theme parks, and not a remake of the 2003 Eddie Murphy film. Like how the Coen brothers returned to Charles Portis’ novel instead of John Ford’s film when directing their True Grit, except not really.
- In an interview with Collider, del Toro floated the idea of directing a “very small movie, black and white, really, really bizarre” before he began work on Pacific Rim 2.
- The Mexican-born filmmaker had also agreed to direct a film based on DC’s comic book Justice League Dark, about a team of superheroes similar to the Justice League, only dark!
Unless del Toro was to, say, devise some kind of golden contraption capable of keeping him alive forever by turning him into a vampire, there’s no way in hell he’d have time to complete all of these projects on a reasonable timeline.
And so, snuck into the final paragraph of a report on Warner Bros.’ choice to shuffle around its comic-book properties was THR’s revelation that del Toro is most likely off of the Justice League Dark project. It’s not exactly a great loss; del Toro fans generally felt that the auteur’s talents would be wasted in the world of studio-franchise filmmaking, and Warners hadn’t mounted any great push of support for the gestating property. Perhaps it’s for the best that del Toro and the DC universe have parted ways. Whatever will get him working on that really bizarre, very small, black-and-white movie faster!