One To Watch - Crimson Peak

In my humble opinion, Guillermo del Toro will have a tough time topping his unbelievably complex fairytale El Laberinto Del Fauno (known to English audiences as Pan's Labyrinth). With this prestige pedigree and his early work in horror with Cronos, Mimic and - to some extent - The Devil's Backbone, this is definitely a project worth getting excited about.

Nice neck beard -  respect Guillermo.

The details are pretty scant, with the only real clues coming from a couple of articles based on what I believe was an exclusive interview he gave to a Deadline reporter. Co-written with Matthew Robbins and now being re-written somewhat by Lucinda Coxon, he wants this to be a big-budget horror, both playing with and honouring the old school class of horror films. I'm intrigued by this movement away from the low-budget shlock and the found-footage genre that have recently dominated studios' horror budgets, and I'd love to see a big name like del Toro smash something like this out of the park and hopefully secure more financing for bigger, terror inducing numbers in the future. It's due to begin production in early 2014, so it's a long time between drinks, though it has the potential to be very worth the (not inconsiderable) wait.

But we have to keep this in mind - despite having confirmed this as his next movie, del Toro had previously confirmed that he was doing The Hobbit films, and we all know how that turned out (for those of you who don't - he didn't). So while this announcement ought to be taken with a grain of salt, del Toro's clear excitement for the piece and the strong backing of Thomas Tull at Legendary Pictures (the man behind DC's current success-filled push and also a man who rakes in plenty of moolah) should negate that salt somewhat with a spoonful of sugar.

The original article can be found here for more juicy details:
http://www.deadline.com/2012/12/guillermo-del-toro-to-helm-crimson-peak-as-next-feature-with-legendary-pictures/