NOTE: King JoBlo pointed out to us that at Comic-Con, del Toro stated the same thing as Jones did with regards to the movie being ‘shopped around’ and neglecting to mention the Paramount deal that was supposedly struck. Interesting, since there hasn’t been word of the Paramount deal falling through. Hopefully this gets cleared up soon.
Now Playing Magazine chips in tonight with an interview they had at Comic-Con with Doug Jones, who starred as the fishy telepathic (at least in the film) Ape Sapien in HELLBOY, as well as the title character in PAN’S LABYRINTH, both of which were directed by Guillermo del Toro (who’s also directing HELLBOY 2: THE GOLDEN ARMY if you didn’t know).
The interview is broken up into three parts, with the first part involving Jones chatting about PAN’S LABYRINTH, the second about his rumoured involvement as the Silver Surfer in the next FANTASTIC FOUR movie, and lastly the third part concerns HELLBOY 2, which recently had to move studios due to producer Revolution Studios having their deal with Sony expiring. “Revolution had a relationship with Sony Pictures that is now expired [and] that’s who co-produced our first film,” says Jones. “So now making part two is just a matter of financing. Revolution Studios is not in a position to finance a film of this magnitude by themselves so they need to marry themselves up with another studio. And so Guillermo has been shopping it around.” Obviously, someone forgot to tell Jones that Paramount has picked up the tab for the sequel.
Elsewhere in the interview, Jones expresses his excitement for the new film, but despite this, del Toro’s being a little sneaky with the script. “Guillermo said it is so good that he doesn’t want me to see the script yet until we know it’s a go with some studio, because if I read it and we don’t get to make it, it would be the biggest disappointment of my career.” Yep, no one told him about the Paramount deal.
To read the entire interview synopsis right from the beginning, hit it up here.
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