Entertainment Weekly reports the ever-optimistic director is refuting the idea that his blockbuster excuse for playing with toys isn’t happening. “We are still turning in a screenplay and a budget in three weeks,” Del Toro said, probably while swinging action figures around in an arc and making the “Pew! Pew!” laser-gun sound. “As far as I’m concerned, it’s not gone. We’re still on it.” He admits there may be a delay, but if so, it’ll merely be a short-lived one. “It moved further. I may do another movie in the middle.” This is nothing new for the director, who has cultivated a never-say-die attitude toward basically every passion project he’s ever had, at least when it comes to enormous $100-million-plus popcorn movies.
I can tell you this, if I was a billionaire, I would definitely do Hellboy 3, Pacific Rim 2, and At the Mountains of Madness. And I would quickly become a millionaire.
The sequel was originally scheduled to be released in 3D in August 2017, but presumably even del Toro is acknowledging that window has probably disappeared, much like a portal to another dimension on the ocean floor. Still, he plans to begin work on it some time after his next project, which he describes as a “really, really bizarre” indie film, possibly that collaboration with Hideo Kojima he teased after Silent Hills fell apart. Or maybe it’ll just be del Toro in his backyard, playing a game of Calvinball, since that seems like something the director would have no problem doing for the rest of his life.
