Del Toro gives updates on the Pacific Rim cast, a Haunted Mansion reboot and the likelihood of a third Hellboy film.
[toggler title=”TL;DR” ]Guillermo del Toro says Charlie Hunman and the surviving Pacific Rim cast will return for the sequel, studios don’t think Hellboy 3 will make money, and gives some insight on developing projects such as Haunted Mansion.[/toggler]
[dropcap size=small]G[/dropcap]uillermo del Toro spoke to Collider back in November about which characters Pacific Rim 2 would focus on, stating that Charlie Day (Geiszler) and Burn Gorman (Gottlieb) would have major roles in the sci-fi sequel. Shortly after the director’s Television Critics Assocation panel though, del Toro clarified that their roles do not necessarily mean Charlie Hunman’s Raleigh will be relegated to a minor character.
‘No, no, no, Charlie Day has a great part but so does Charlie Hunnam. I think that everybody or most everybody that survived is back. The rest we killed. We killed half the cast.’
Uh… Spoilers, I guess.
When asked about his highly anticipated Haunted Mansion reboot, which has been in the works for over five years, del Toro gave some insight on what it takes to get a project up and running in Hollywood.
‘All you can do is develop the screenplays, send them in, get a reaction, get the budget, agree or disagree on budget and so forth. Every project goes through the same thing. People say why do you have five [movies in development]? I have five because one happens. Whenever I have dedicated myself to a single project for any length of time, I end up having three, four years where I don’t shoot. It’s happened twice already, so I live in a life of realities. I have to have these projects alive to hope and pray that one of them happens.’
Hellboy 3 is another film del Toro has been trying to get off the ground for a number of years, and although he hasn’t given up on finishing the trilogy, del Toro reiterated that the lack of studio interest makes it unlikely ever to happen.
‘Same status. I think that the fans want it, we want it, but studios… it’s a big movie, bigger than the first one and the second one. The numbers on the Hellboys made a lot of sense because of video. Hellboy II exists not because a studio head said, ‘I’m a big fan.’ The first one made money, made much more money on the Blu-ray and DVD than it did theatrically. It made money. Now that market is done.’
Pacific Rim 2 is due out on August 4th, 2017.
