After hearing Guillermo del Toro speak at Comicon, I understood where Harry Knowles’ infamous oral sex review of BLADE II came from. It’s the sort of thing Guillermo might have written — the man has a dirty mouth. He describes the movie business as a shit sandwich — sometime you take bites that are mostly bread, other times less so. But you always get shit.
Guillermo says he has a standing policy that, while he won’t hear pitches or accept screenplays due to legal reasons, he will watch any short film he is given, though it may take him some time to do so. He also answers emails, so he says, and announced his publicly: abe_sapien(at)hotmaildotcom.
But here’s the crucial detail that everyone was wanting to know — Doug Jones, who played Abe Sapien in HELLBOY (though the voice of David Hyde-Pierce was overdubbed; del Toro swears it’ll be Doug’s voice in the just-announced sequel) said that he had no comment on the new FANTASTIC FOUR sequel, and that he was definitely NOT going to be the motion capture model for any greenscreen work on a big-budget movie in the near future. However…
[the following quotes are inexact, but paraphrases from memory]
“Do you like this shirt I have on?” (indicates shiny silver shirt)
Crowd roars approval.
“I had the opportunity to try on a similar outfit recently. And I liked the way it fit”
(“And he looked good in it!” added Guillermo)
“But…let’s just say they’re still waiting for my credit card to go through. Though if I do get to wear it, I promise I will do the outfit justice.”
So there you have it. Deal not 100% signed, but you could be seeing him on a surfboard shortly. And by the sound of it, in actual make-up rather than CGI.
