Early last year, Legendary and Universal announced that Steven S. DeKnight, a former showrunner for “Daredevil,” was on board to direct “Pacific Rim: Uprising” a project many believed was dead. Now, in an interview with Collider, Guillermo del Toro revealed why he ended up not directing the sequel to his 2013 sci-fi monster movie.
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“The timing started to suck,” the filmmaker said. “I had this little movie that I wanted to do —’The Shape of Water’— very, very much. At one point it was ‘Justice League Dark’ or ‘Pacific Rim,’ I said, ‘Let’s go to Pacific Rim.’ The reality is they said, ‘We’re gonna need to postpone,’ because they were changing hands—[‘Pacific Rim’ studio] Legendary was going to be sold to China, to a Chinese company [called the Wanda Group]. They said, ‘We’ve gotta wait nine months,...
Read More: Guillermo del Toro Says He ‘Should Have Lied’ About the ‘At the Mountains of Madness’ R Rating
“The timing started to suck,” the filmmaker said. “I had this little movie that I wanted to do —’The Shape of Water’— very, very much. At one point it was ‘Justice League Dark’ or ‘Pacific Rim,’ I said, ‘Let’s go to Pacific Rim.’ The reality is they said, ‘We’re gonna need to postpone,’ because they were changing hands—[‘Pacific Rim’ studio] Legendary was going to be sold to China, to a Chinese company [called the Wanda Group]. They said, ‘We’ve gotta wait nine months,...
- 4/7/2017
- by Yoselin Acevedo
- Indiewire
In March 2011, Guillermo del Toro announced that his adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s “At The Mountains of Madness” had been killed by Universal. Apparently, the studio loved the project, but didn’t like the idea of injecting $150 million into an R-rated film, even if it had Tom Cruise attached as the lead star and James Cameron as a producer. For years, the filmmaker kept his hopes up, suggesting he might bring the project to Legendary Pictures; he was even willing to make the film at a PG-13 rating. However, the movie never saw the light.
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In an interview with Collider, the “Pacific Rim” helmer spoke about the struggles he faced trying to get the movie done. “A lot of people think of directors like Caesar sitting on a chaise...
Read More: Guillermo del Toro Analyzes David Fincher’s ‘Zodiac,’ Proves It’s One of the Best Films in ‘Recent Memory’
In an interview with Collider, the “Pacific Rim” helmer spoke about the struggles he faced trying to get the movie done. “A lot of people think of directors like Caesar sitting on a chaise...
- 4/6/2017
- by Yoselin Acevedo
- Indiewire
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