“And why is the exposed skull on fire?” is not a question one should have to ask with regards to a children’s film.
All joking aside, Guillermo del Toro is a great choice to help improve Dreamworks animated features. He was all over How to Train Your Dragon and that was a genuinely enjoyable film. It didn’t quite have the adult/child crossover of a Pixar creation but it was probably Dreamworks‘ most well-rounded offering to date.
Though I do think Dreamworks would do well not to stifle Del Toro were he to throw in a few goat-faced demon spawn in the next Madagascar sequel.
Commenters: How else might Guillermo del Toro bring his singular vision to children’s films? Or how might he adapt current animated movies?
Infernal *throne* of sorrowed souls.
He can definitely go all multi-lingual all over some children's movies. Or at least partially multi-lingual. His English isn't that great.
I'd love to sic Dreamworks AND DelToro on some Island of Misfit toys… a little Toy Story, but with a dark side.
Hmmm I wonder if we'll see a new CG animated Lord of the Rings Trilogy….
Dunno… he backed out of The Hobbit, 'cause it was taking too long.
The Lord of The Rings Trilogy IS the CG animated Lord Of the Rings Trilogy. Theres like 4 actual dudes in that.
Yeah but they could always do what they did with Attack of the Clones cartoon….not that I want to see that happen…
LOL – Now I want to see all things for kids "del Toro'ed"
New site is looking good BTW… now if only all those Links to Stuff took me to actual Stuff 😉
I realized the resemblance when I went to draw del Toro and it was the same way that I would have drawn you. Maybe you can convince him he's your dad and get some of that sweet sweet hollywood monies.
del Toro's Seven Dwarves are deformed, incest-borne monstrosities, and they try to cut Snow White's legs off so she can live among them.
I'd pay $7 to see that.
I'd pay 20 dollars to see that!
"Can Scrapple's flaming skull make the Dreamworks face*?"
"He has no eyebrows?"
"Don't worry, we'll fix it in post!"
(* http://alltopmovies.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/0… )
Scrapple is also the name of the worst know food to mankind….
Penguins of Madagascar certainly took a turn for the darker after King Julien bashed Fred the Squirrel's face in with a wine bottle.
In Flushed Away (FAR better than Ratatouille IMO) the toilet leads to a far stranger place than the sewer, where the slugs sing mariachi tunes, and the Jammy Dodger is a sentient ship of dog bones, eternally seeking revenge on all cats by helping rats invade their homes and gnaw their paws off.
Does Scrapples have to pass a sleepy eyeless portal keeper with eyes in the palms of his hands?
THEN IT'S NOT Guillermo del Toro
Does the sleepy eyeless monster have eyes in the palms of his hands?
THEN IT'S NOT EYELESS!
Well played, sir. Well played.
Monsters INC 3 when the monsters find out that eating babies cures cancer.
Army of Mammon is the name of my Backstreet Boys cover band
Isn't that who boy bands have to sign with in blood to get a recording deal?
Lets face it, Shrek is overdue for a darker, edgier reboot. Shrek becomes more of a Tolkienesque ogre with a bespiked club or double headed ax. Fill his swamp with the restless dead of a battles long lost (think The Dead Marshes). Donkey becomes one of Del Toros signature otherworldly creatures. Crank the fascism of Duloc up to 11 and promote Farquaads Napoleon complex to a Hitler complex. There, done.
And it will be entirely in Spanish!
Dreamworks definitely needs the help. Pixar for lliiiffeee!
My Little Hell Pony anyone? or perhaps Cenobites vs Rainbow Brite
Cogwheels! Cogwheels everywhere!!
Del Toro definitely has a theme of parent death/child death/orphans. So…actually, that works well with kids films… Disney films are all basically orphans or dead parents.