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Up Close And Personal With Guillermo Del Toro
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Señor Del Toro is a very special filmmaker. The self-described traveling Mexican lives out of a suitcase from film set to film set, from life experience to life experience. He is simultaneously a Hollywood studio system misfit and Hollywood studio system darling. After directing his short Doña Lupe in 1986, Del Toro was never far from a movie set. His film career catapulted with his first feature film with (1993). He has continued to develop his unique voice and entertaining global audiences since. In 2018 he won both an Oscar and Golden Globe Award for his amphibious film The Shape Of Water. Nobody will ever look at fish men in the same way again.
Creative Screenwriting Magazine caught up with him as he paused for breath on the week of the release of Scary Stories. As if he wasn’t juggling enough film and TV projects, he also has five projects currently in pre and post-production. Some may argue that Guillermo Del Toro is cinematic lightning in a bottle.
Ultimately, Del Toro is a storyteller like all of us. We asked him what specific elements of a story attract him. Read More
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+ “Scary Stories” Will Frighten Kids, But for Adults, This Isn’t “It” - Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, adapted from the popular fictional anthologies written by Alvin Schwartz, has the unenviable timing of opening in the week after the horrible shooting tragedies. Fictional ghost stories can’t hold a candle to the horrors of the real world. PG-13 rated frighteners rarely have the impact of the R-rated kind. Scary Stories also strains to employ a lot of the glib tone of Stranger Things. Finally, by taking a slew of short stories that made up the series of books and placing them in an overarching narrative of misfit kids discovering the awful history of their small town, the film invites far too many comparisons to Stephen King’s It.
+ “Real Kids, Real Stakes” Dan and Kevin Hageman Talk ‘Scary Stories’ - Brothers Dan and Kevin Hageman are best known for their writing credits like Hotel Transylvania, The Lego Movie, Trollhunters, and Ninjago. But, before the animated films and now the live action TV series, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, the duo worked on screenplays with Steven Spielberg, Chris Columbus, and Jerry Bruckheimer. Not too shabby.
+ “Animation Is Similar To Silent Film So Tell Your Story Visually” Kelly Asbury On ‘UglyDolls’ - Kelly Asbury is no stranger to the animation world. He boasts work on a long list of animated movies including Toy Story, Frozen and Wreck-It Ralph. He also directed the Oscar-nominated Shrek 2 and Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron for Dreamworks. Most recently, Asbury directed UglyDolls, the animated feature which is currently on wide digital release. He sat down with Creative Screenwriting Magazine in Uglyville and discussed his creative process to translate dolls into a feature film.
+ “The Nightingale Is A Film About Revenge, But Not A Revenge Film” Says Writer/ Director Jennifer Kent - Although Jennifer Kent hails from Brisbane, Australia, she has traveled the world beside her work. She first took the spotlight with her multi-award-winning short, Monster in 2005. Her first horror feature, The Babadook screened at Sundance to much critical and audience acclaim in 2014. Now she’s back with her tender love story, The Nightingale, set in brutal, colonial Tasmania, Australia in 1825. She took some time out to chat with Creative Screenwriting Magazine about her opus.
Also, check out:
+ Villains and Their Functions In Stories
+ Producers At Comic-Con State Their Intention Not To Stray Too Far Into The Unknown
+ “The Stunts Must Show Character Growth” Explains ‘Hobbs & Shaw’ Screenwriter Chris Morgan
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