The Hobbit and HellBoy II: The Golden Army Director, Guillermo Del Toro, has named the person he thinks should play the part of Frankenstein when he does his take on the Frankenstein story. In an interview with ShockTillYouDrop.com, Del Toro mentioned that …

“For the monster I would love to have Doug Jones,” he revealed. Jones has worked for the director as a creature performance since Mimic and plays Abe Sapien in the Hellboy films. “I think he can do a fantastic job. Ron looks seven feet tall in Hellboy, but he’s not. I think we could do that with Doug, but I would love to do it with him. The only vision of the Frankenstein monster I’ve ever latched onto is Berni Wrightson’s. He’s lanky and long and it’s gorgeous in a tragic way. Doug has all of those qualities.”

In terms of the movie itself Del Toro says he’s been bouncing back and forth to London lately for the Hobbit films. There are no scripts yet, however, “We already started notes and underlining and e-mailing back and forth. A few lines have been written here and there, but we will have the big pow-wow [soon] – bad pizza, take-out food in a sort’ve a pressure cooker [meeting] in about two weeks.”

I think a Del Toro adaptation of Frankenstein would be awesome. I love his work, Dark and beautiful at the same time.

As if we hadn’t heard enough of Guillermo Del Toro recently… this time he is attached as directing “Dr. Strange”, the comic book character created by Steve Ditko and Stan Lee. The movie has been announced and Del Toro has approached Neil Gaiman to write the script.

In an interview with Empire Online, director Del Toro has said

“I talked with Neil Gaiman [about writing it],” he told the site. “I said, that’s an interesting character because you can definitely make him more in the pulpy occult detective/magician mould and formula than was done in the Weird Tales, for example…the idea of a character that really dabbles in the occult in a way that’s not X-Filey, where the supernatural is taken for granted. That’s interesting…But I wouldn’t use the suit!“

I’ll be first in line to catch this one that’s for sure. Will keep you updated if new information comes up.

Writer and Director, Guillermo Del Toro, has recently said that “we’ll know in four or five days whether all the legal stuff on The Hobbit and its sequel has been worked out and if he’ll be moving ahead”. Del Toro has been listed as the lead in heading the next two films in the Lord of The Rings series; however nothing has been signed as yet.

He also added that his next small movie will be called “Saturn and the End of Days” about a young boy watching the end of the world while walking back and forth from the supermarket.

Coming from his previous movies like Pan’s Labyrinth and The Devil’s Backbone, this new project should raise some extreme interest from his fans.

Guillermo Del Toro, the mastermind behind the instant classic, Pan’s Labyrinth, is cited to be the director for the up-and-coming prequel to the Lord of the Rings Trilogy, The Hobbit. Nothing is confirmed as yet, although Del Toro’s message board confirms there is a lot of talk around cast, creative, crew, visuals, etc. but any final concrete information on the movie is yet to be disclosed. The closest we can get is Del Toro’s promise… “Expect good things in the next 2 weeks and a nice item at COMICON.”

As for the question “Why Guillermo Del Toro and not Peter Jackson?”
Peter Jackson didn’t want the job, and there is no clear reason why, maybe he’s all Gollum’d out.