Guillermo Del Toro Teases His Adaptation Of Kazuo Ishiguro’s ‘The Buried Giant’ At BFI Career Talk
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Guillermo Del Toro Teases His Adaptation Of Kazuo Ishiguro’s ‘The Buried Giant’ At BFI Career Talk
by yourfavchoom
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Del Toro described the film as a “fascinatingly difficult stop-motion movie for adults.” He also revealed that he is reuniting with his longtime collaborator Ron Perlman for this project.
> “If you do a live action Pinocchio and all of a sudden a puppet walks through it becomes uncanny valley, which is a horrible thing that doesn’t belong in the same world. Just like if you do a live action movie about an old couple crossing a landscape full of trolls and fairies, and there are special effects and actors.”
It was reported earlier this week that Perlman’s also working on Jorge Gutiérrez’s ‘I, Chihuahua’. Two Mexican creators on Netflix animated projects almost in tandem has never happened before, has it?
>The novel follows an elderly Briton couple, Axl and Beatrice, living in a fictional post-Arthurian England in which no-one is able to retain long-term memories. The couple have dim memories of having had a son, and they decide to travel to a neighbouring village to seek him out.
This is gonna be brutal.
Ooh I loved this book! Ishiguro is probably my favorite author.
Honestly can’t think of a better director for something dreamlike and melancholic like The Buried Giant.
Still waiting on his teased adaption of Monster. After he bailed on The Hobbit and Monster, I’ve learned to have zero hype for any project of his until cameras roll.