Guillermo Del Toro To Make Black-and-White Silva About A Mexican Wrestler Fighting Vampires

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Guillermo del Toro recently celebrated his 51st birthday. While he is about to bequeath cinefiles another gift from his cabinet of curiosities with the release of Crimson Peak, and acknowledged that the sequel to Pacific Rim is nearly greenlit, del Toro is looking to his next project.

According to The Playlist, for a recent podcast interview, del Toro suggested he would going smaller, not big for his feature after Pacific Rim 2. He said, “I feel compelled to do something small and weird, because I need a breather and a little bit more madness in my life.”

British newspaper The Guardian had a recent interview with del Toro, and the writer-director revealed some information on the small movie he plans to make.

It’s Silva, and is about a Mexican masked wrestler who discovers that all politicians are vampires.

‘Silva,’ which he sees as a black-and-white, low-budget project, was a casualty of the early termination of his film-making career in Mexico; his family fled the country for Toronto after his father was kidnapped and the family paid a ruinous ransom, the Guardian wrote.

Considering all the issues Guillermo del Toro has had getting big Hollywood movies off the ground, and the time he’s spent on projects (del Toro was working on making two Hobbit movies for two years before ultimately leaving the project due to financing concerns), I’m all for him making the films he wants to make without the studio quagmire of big budget productions.

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