Guillermo del Toro may be best known for movies like The Shape of Water and Pan's Labyrinth, but the filmmaker is keen to take his work in a different direction, revealing that he only wants to make animated films in the future.
"There are a couple more live-action movies I want to do, but not many," del Toro told attendees during an event at Annecy International Animation Film Festival and Market (via The Hollywood Reporter). "After that, I only want to do animation. That’s the plan."
The director has already started on this trajectory, as his most recent movie was the 2022 stop-motion adaptation of Pinocchio. The film won Best Animated Feature at this year's Oscars and Golden Globes and features an all-star voice cast including Ewan McGregor, Tilda Swinton, and Cate Blanchett. It seems like del Toro wants to stick specifically with the stop-motion style of animation in his future work, too.
"I believe you can make an adult fantasy drama with stop-motion and move people emotionally," he continued. "I think stop-motion can be intravenous, it can go straight to your emotions in a way that no other medium can."
Next up for del Toro, though, is another live-action project. He's adapting Frankenstein for Netflix, with Oscar Isaac, Andrew Garfield, and Mia Goth in talks to star, and it's a project he's famously wanted to make for a long time.
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