It’s been a real great couple of weeks if you’re a Guillermo del Toro fan like myself. Not only did he confirm that Pacific Rim 2 will be coming out on April 7, 2017 – he’s just confirmed for Collider that he will shoot a smaller project next spring in black & white. Not much was revealed, only that it will begin shooting next spring, that he’s looking at reteaming with John Hurt (both Hellboy films) as well as testing an unknown female lead he’s excited about – oh and in signature del Toro style, it’s going to be bizarre and have “one great creature in it”. Check below for his comments to Collider:
“Right away, in February/March I should [start on] another very small movie, black and white, really, really bizarre before starting—we start pre-production on Pacific Rim 2 in August, and then I interrupt it briefly to go into the first of next year to do this strange little movie, and then I restart it and go all the way until we start shooting Pacific Rim 2 at the end of 2015 for release in 2017. It’s a very small cast. I would love to have John Hurt, and there’s an actress that I have in mind that is not well-known but I’ve seen her in a short film. That’s all she’s really done, one feature and one short, but she has an incredibly interesting taste and I’m gonna try her out for the main role. There’s one great creature in it. It does [have a title], but I find—I’d rather do the projects and then show them to people than talk about them. I think that it’s going to be a nice thing for people to know which one is it and where it came from when it’s a reality.”
This is great news seeing as we’ll be getting a lot of activity from him through 2017. Besides directing the pilot for The Strain this Sunday – adapted from the series he cowrote – he’s got his gothic thriller Crimson Peak set for release next year on Oct. 16, 2015. We can expect to see his unknown black and white film sometime in 2016 with Pacific Rim 2 bashing into theaters April 7, 2017. Guillermo del Toro has always had an intriguing color palette at play in his films, most notably Pan’s Labyrinth & Cronos, and the idea of him making his stamp on black and white film is certainly exciting. We’ll be sure to update you with more info as Del Toro announces them.
Source: Collider
2 thoughts on “Guillermo del Toro to Shoot Small Black & White Film Before “Pacific Rim 2””
I just hope he has the time to actually accomplish all of this. There have been many projects that have fallen by the wayside for GDT in recent years. Most disappointingly that Frankenstein adaptation with Doug Jones.
Indeed he is quite prone to leaving a lot of projects in pre-production hell. He seems like this is a done deal, so I’m hoping he finds the time as well.