Listen: Guillermo del Toro's adaptation of Slaughterhouse-Five with Charlie Kaufman has become unstuck in time
As all timelines exist simultaneously, Guillermo del Toro is currently caught between a dimension in which he’s creating a new adaptation of Slaughterhouse-Five with Charlie Kaufman, and one in which he definitely isn’t. Del Toro explained the paradox to the Daily Telegraph (via The Playlist), saying he’s attached to make a new version of Vonnegut’s novel that George Roy Hill last adapted in 1972, and that he wants to explore its story of a fatalistic WWII soldier’s time travels with Kaufman, who spends most of his days brooding in the fourth dimension anyway. “Charlie and I talked for about an hour-and-a-half and came up with a perfect way of doing the book,” Del Toro said. ”I love the idea of the Trafalmadorians—to be 'unstuck in time,' where everything is happening at the same time. And that's what I want to do.”