The TV Addict 

Del Toro has emerged as one of the most inventive, creative directors working in Hollywood (and outside of it) today. Sure, he’s given us exciting action-adventures like BLADE II, and HELLBOY, but it’s his independent work that makes me love the guy. You can’t go wrong with meaty dramatic films like THE DEVIL’S BACKBONE and the visually sumptuous PAN’S LABYRINTH. At the New York Comic-Con over the weekend he revealed that he intends to make another film in what he loosely calls his “childhood” series. This one is to be called PLANET SATURN: END OF DAYS, and will follow a young boy running errands back and forth from a supermarket as the apocalypse happens around him. Again Del Toro seems to want to explore horror through the perspective of youthful innocence, though this time he’s at least finally (I think) moving away from the Spanish Civil War to do so. Personally, I’m excited, not just because it’s a cool idea, but I’ve always enjoys projects that view disastrous events through a small-town, non-military perspective, whether it be something like CLOVERFIELD, or the novel ALAS, BABYLON.

What do you guys think? Do you prefer the more blockbuster style work of Del Toro, or have you enjoyed his smaller, Spanish-language films more? Or do you want him to just get going on THE HOBBIT movie already?

Source: /Film