Del Toro hints at "big news"

I couldn't even keep up with all the projects Guillermo del Toro already had in development in addition to the upcoming Hobbit movies, but now he's just made my job even more complicated by announcing that yet another movie is in the works.

This time del Toro's playing it coy, saying that a big announcement is coming soon, and it somehow involves the letter D.

In a few days there will be a BIG announcement (big for me, at least) that is not-Hobbit related. BEFORE anyone starts wondering the usual “how does he have time?, Is this detracting form The Hobbit?” etc It is a project that started over 2 years ago, before The Hobbit and will render fruits in the mid-term, not intruding on my Hobbit duties. Rest assured. The key letter is “D”

The folks at Slashfilm conjecture that he could be talking about a movie version of DC Comics' Deadman, but they think it's more likely he's at work on a movie based on Marvel Comics' long-running Dr. Strange, with Neil Gaiman as the possible screenwriter. But there are many, many other interesting possibilities. Del Toro could be working on a remake of the 2005 Bollywood film D, or an adaptation of the 1995 Playstation videogame D. He could be working on a biopic about the Japanese band D, or popular Filipino actor Dingdong Dantes. Perhaps he's working on a history of deuterium, or the programming language D. Or maybe he's making a movie about Dee Dee Ramone, or Dee from What's Happening!!

The only sad part? The man has enough movies slated to keep him busy through 2025... And none of them are the third Hellboy picture.

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