On the heels of his Toronto International Film Festival premiere of Frankenstein, starring Oscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi, Guillermo del Toro announced a new gestating project called Fury, which will feature Isaac and is described as a “violent” pic in the vein of a murderous My Dinner with Andre (1981).
“I’m writing a project to do with Oscar,” the director told the TIFF audience. “I’m writing it right now, and it’s called Fury, and essentially it’s going back to [the] sort of thriller aspects of Nightmare Alley — very cruel, very violent. Like My Dinner with Andre but [with] killing people after each course.”
He continued, citing his reasoning for being drawn to the project: “Because I’m very interested in the violence we do to each other, and we do it with our minds, we do it with our souls and we do it physically. And I think it’s new questions [I’m having]; I’m 60 now, so I’ve gone from asking where I’m going and [being a] father and son to [experiencing] regret. I’m in the regret decade, so expect a lot of regret.”
Additionally, the three-time Oscar winner confirmed he will be adapting a fantasy novel written by the Nobel Prize-winning Kazuo Ishiguro, which Deadline exclusively announced two years prior: “I am, right now, preparing a stop-motion adaptation of The Buried Giant, the Kazuo Ishiguro novel. And it is going to be an epic stop-motion that is not going to be for kids. It’s truly exploring the capacity to act, of a stop-motion project, and fuse a world the way you would do it if it was a live-action.”
Naturally, this is not new territory for the Pinocchio filmmaker, with the tale of the transforming wooden puppet a decidedly not-for-children adaptation on which ShadowMachine’s stop motion studio also served as the production’s home base.
With references to 1947’s Nightmare Alley, a film noir brimming with deceit and tragedy, and My Dinner With Andre, which chronicles the bifurcation between two old pals who come together over dinner to discuss life philosophies and regrets, it’s clear del Toro’s forthcoming project will not be for the feint of heart.
Frankenstein, which had its world premiere at Venice last month, will debut in select theaters Oct. 17 and Netflix Nov. 7.
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