Guillermo del Toro confirms at Toronto: Fury starring Oscar Isaac is happening
According to CinemaDrame News Agency, at the Toronto Festival, Guillermo del Toro announced that after Frankenstein, he will collaborate again with Oscar Isaac. He revealed that the new film, a thriller titled Fury, will be similar in style to the 1981 film My Dinner with Andre.
Del Toro told the Toronto audience: “I’m writing a project with Oscar [Isaac]. I’m writing it right now, and it’s called Fury. It basically goes back to the thriller aspects of Nightmare Alley—very ruthless and very brutal. It’s like My Dinner with Andre, except after every meal there’s a massacre.”
He went on to explain why the project excites him: “Because I’m very interested in the violence we inflict on each other—through our minds, our spirits, and physically. And I think it raises new questions; I’ve turned 60, so I’ve moved from questioning where I’ll go and what it means to be a father and son, into the experience of regret. I’m in the decade of regret, so expect a lot of it.”
The Oscar-winning filmmaker also confirmed that in addition to this project, he will adapt Kazuo Ishiguro’s fantasy novel The Buried Giant: “I’m preparing right now to do a stop-motion adaptation of The Buried Giant. It’s going to be an epic stop-motion film, and it’s not made for children.”
Del Toro previously directed Pinocchio as a stop-motion film for Netflix. Frankenstein will be released in theaters on October 17 and on Netflix on November 7.
