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Guillermo del Toro Invading Videogames
Post by Steve Farrelly @ 12:26pm 29/07/10 | 14 Comments
After emotionally walking away from The Hobbit, Guillermo del Toro has decided to set his sights on the games industry, telling MTV News "one of the things we're announcing in the next few weeks is a big deal with a big company. We're going to do games that are going to be technically and narratively very interesting".

Exactly who the "big company" is, is anyone's guess, though if I had to put my money on anyone, it would be Warner Bros. Interactive.

"It's not a development deal," he continued. "We're going to do it. We're doing them. And we're going to announce it soon enough."






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Carson
Posted 12:33pm 29/7/10
Awesome.

Now if he'd only release the second part of the Strain novels!
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greazy
Posted 12:38pm 29/7/10
This is the same guy who did Blade 2, the best of the blades in my opinion.

Awesome.
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trog
Posted 12:41pm 29/7/10
If you haven't seen "El laberinto del fauno" (aka, Pan's Labyrinth) you are missing out on some seriously awesome movie.
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Midda
Posted 12:51pm 29/7/10
I thought Pan's Labyrinth was okay, not amazing. I was actually a bit disappointed, after hearing everyone rave on about it so much.
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Steve Farrelly
Posted 01:00pm 29/7/10
I loved it, in two parts, but hated it as a whole. I just found the real-world stuff awesome, but wanted it as a period-piece, while the fantasy stuff needed way more fleshing out, again meaning it would have been an awesome stand-alone movie - he should have made two separate films
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fade
Posted 01:42pm 29/7/10
It was hard to seperate the fantasy from the real-world story. But i agree, a movie on the Franco Spain would be awesome.
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Crakaveli
Posted 01:53pm 29/7/10
If you haven't seen "El laberinto del fauno" (aka, Pan's Labyrinth) you are missing out on some seriously awesome movie.


This is true. Also, hellboy is awesome.
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Mordecai
Posted 02:02pm 29/7/10
Of the works by Guillermo del Toro that I have seen I have enjoyed the visuals, the narrative and the blending of the two.

I look forward to seeing and hearing about what types of games he is planning on bringing to the gaming table. We sure as hell are going to see some weird arse creatures in those games.
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Dan
Posted 03:03pm 29/7/10
Well the last time del Toro opened his mouth about videogames he said
"I think BioShock's a rare one because it's actually a great story," he said. "Me? I don't want to make movies based on videogames, but BioShock's the one Oedipal, crazy kind of -- it's just got really good bones, and we're really trying to figure out a way to make it work."


Considering how many games I could name that have better stories than BioShock, if he truly thinks it's a rarity then I really don't have much confidence in his ability to know what makes a good game.

I dunno though, perhaps a lack of knowledge of other games isn't such a bad thing and might give him a bit of a different perspective to work from, as long as he's not a complete creative lead on the project and has plenty of people otherwise skilled in game development it could work out ok.
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Damo
Posted 06:45pm 29/7/10
back up... He isn't doing the hobbit anymore? What happened..
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Mordecai
Posted 08:56pm 29/7/10
back up... He isn't doing the hobbit anymore? What happened..


http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/movies/2010/07/guillermo-del-toro-hobbit-peter-jackson-at-mountains-madness.html

Spent so long doing it he got kinda sick of it by the read of that article.
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Khel
Posted 09:04pm 29/7/10
Well the last time del Toro opened his mouth about videogames he said


That was Gore Verbinski who said that, not Guillermo Del Toro.
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trog
Posted 09:44am 30/7/10
In your faun-hating FACE dan!
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Dan
Posted 10:05am 30/7/10
Hehe, reckon. Shut down. That'll teach me to mix up strangely-named film directors. Could have at least ended the sentence with "you dickhead" though :)

Pans was an ok film, but I don't really get all the hype about it. The Hellboy movies were pretty damn mediocre though.
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