Post by masterofallgoons on Mar 8, 2018 16:20:46 GMT
I kind of would have thought that Del Toro would have had the ability to do almost anything he wanted anyway, but he didn't have any luck getting a studio to provide him the huge budget he needed for this bleak, R rated, romance free, cold, cerebral, trippy horror story with a downer ending. He did a lot of work developing it, but studios weren't ready to turn over $150 million to him for big risky project.
Of course now he probably has as much clout as he every would. Everyone wants to what any director who wins an oscar will do next, but in his case he has some of these long developed projects that we've heard about so we can speculate a bit more.
We also now live in a world with some very successful R rated movies from the last few years. They may have been from comic properties people might already recognize, but now putting 'from Oscar winning director' on the poster and in the trailer, they might feel like that can make up for some of the risk. Also, maybe Del Toro would be able to lower that number a bit, considering what he was able to achieve on a budget of under $20 million with The Shape of Water.
Anyway, does anyone think this has any better shot of being made now, or is still too big of a swing?
Of course now he probably has as much clout as he every would. Everyone wants to what any director who wins an oscar will do next, but in his case he has some of these long developed projects that we've heard about so we can speculate a bit more.
We also now live in a world with some very successful R rated movies from the last few years. They may have been from comic properties people might already recognize, but now putting 'from Oscar winning director' on the poster and in the trailer, they might feel like that can make up for some of the risk. Also, maybe Del Toro would be able to lower that number a bit, considering what he was able to achieve on a budget of under $20 million with The Shape of Water.
Anyway, does anyone think this has any better shot of being made now, or is still too big of a swing?
