Disney/Del Toro
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- iheartfun
Guillermo del Toro partnership with Disney for a new label entitled "Disney Double Dare You", featuring "full family" films with horror bent.
The label will include books, merchandise and films. The first film in the series will be titled Trollhunters and will be followed by a series of films, all developed by del Toro.
The stories will apparently be tied together by, the words of del Toro, "One feature that shall remain secret, but that you shall soon be very familiar with."
I went to the expo and keep hearing info about this but really... I dont see it being successful? What kinda movies are really going to come out of this???
- 7point340
i estimate that anything he comes up with will be heavily watered down and bastardized by disney and he will come to hate the arrangement.
- CALLES0
"the pedobear anecdotes?"
- iheartfun0
That's what I was thinking. I mean really those two dont match up WHAT SO EVER.
- johndiggity0
you have any idea how much money the twilight franchise is worth?
- whereRI0
money he just needed a big fat wod of cash
- luckyorphan0
I don't see why this would not work. Del Toro is quite imaginative, and now that John Lasseter is essentially the new head cheese in charge of all things creative, it's not too much of a stretch to see how Disney would be encouraging collaboration with creators who come with an edge.
Disney has been trying desperately to develop properties that counter their image as "the princess and fairy company" of late, and I think their recent acquisition of Marvel and the introduction of the "Double Dare You" series is intriguing, if not a step in the right direction.
Some of you may think that their purchase of Marvel is a death nell for the comics, but anyone who's followed the industry knows that Disney pretty much saved Marvel with that purchase.
Del Toro's work is lush with all kinds of horrible violence (like a great deal of Marvel comics, come to think of it), but they are also very incisive, thoughtful works that often have children as central characters. Yes, they are made for adults, but it's not too hard to see how there is more to this creator.
I guess I'm a little surprised that a site dedicated to design has users that can't imagine how someone would be able to tell many different kinds of stories. Del Toro isn't a brand, and he's not one-note director who can't tell a good story (*cough* Tim Burton) – he's a true creator, and I have a feeling he can do quite a bit more than one thing.
- ok walt, bogger off now will youerikjonsson
- I think Burton can tell a story. Big Fish to Edward Scissorhands is a broad range...babaganush
- < ...seriously?luckyorphan
- randommail0
Del Toro is NOT that imaginative. He reuses the same characters.
When I was watching Hellboy 2, I thought it was a sequel to Pan's Labyrinth.I've seen enough characters with eyeballs in their hands.
- you can NEVER have enough dudes with eyeball hands....just sayin.... ;)exador1
- luckyorphan0
^ Okay. Good call. But still, re-uses do not negate the possibility that he could create something decent.
Besides, since when did QBNers give a shit about Disney?
Or kids, for that matter?
- yes I do think that this is ultimately going to be a commercial successrandommail
- << actually kids.. lots
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