Greetings from the newly-opened Budapest branch office of the MTV Movies team, where you can’t find the World Series on TV, but you can watch a game show hosted by a woman with no shirt on.
Last night, I visited the set of “Hellboy II: The Golden Army,” and caught up with affable auteur Guillermo Del Toro. For years, rumors have circulated that the “Pan’s Labyrinth” maestro has been turning down Harry Potter movies so he can continue his “Hellboy” series. While Del Toro confirmed that he has indeed given the Heisman to the boy wizard in the past, he added that he might still make a Potter movie if Warner Brothers will let him do it on his own terms.
“I’m up to be the one who kills twenty guys,” laughed Del Toro, saying that he’d want to step in for “The Deathly Hallows.”
“They came to me once, for the third one,” he remembered of “The Prisoner of Azkaban.” “I’ve read them all, and when I read the books before the movies were done, I always pictured Charles Dickens - they were very Dickens-ian. The situation of Harry Potter reminded me a lot of Pip from ‘Great Expectations.’ I saw them as deeper, more creaky, more corroded; then [the stories] were textured very differently when the first two movies came out. They were so bright and happy and full of light, that I wasn’t interested.”
After seeing the last few films, however, the director famed for a shadowy imagination and morally ambiguous characters has begun to reconsider. “They seem to be getting eerie and darker … If they come back to me, I’ll think about it.”
Could you imagine “Hallows” being filtered through the mind of Guillermo Del Toro? Some of the stuff on the “Hellboy II” set is like watching your creepiest nightmares brought to life – stay tuned for a full set visit in the near future! In the meantime, weigh in below with your thoughts on who should direct “Deathly Hallows.”
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-Arod
I think either Guillermo or Alfonso would do okay, but I also wouldn't mind seeing DH directed by Tim Burton or M. Night Shyamalan... any of those four guys would make DH rock my flipping socks!
p.s. I'm Harry Potter for Halloween.
Diana said: "Harry Potter has it’s darkness but ultimately it’s about how the light conquers it. We need a director who can show the balance." and I think Burton would be perfect for the last HP because most of his work have that style in them.
Please take him in consideration as well as Alfonso Cuaron.
(As a reminder Helena Bonham Carter who plays Bellatrix Lestrange in Harry Potter is Tim Burton's Girlfriend and they're very much alike)
And quit messin with Cuaron. POA is the best HP film to date, even if it did cut a few things out. Yates did a fairly decent job, so I'm not terribley worried about HBP, although there always is a slight fear they'll mess something up (Snape's worst memory anyone?) Newell was freaking awful though! I can't even sit through GOF. I've only seen it twice because it makes me want to throw things.
Anyway, I think Del Toro is def. the best choice, although Peter Jackson would also be really brilliant. I am a fan of Tim Burton, but I'm not quite sure how I would feel about him directing HP.... Sweeney Todd, he'll be amazing, but DH? I'm just not quite as sure...