{"id":29323,"date":"2013-07-09T10:46:42","date_gmt":"2013-07-09T14:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=29323"},"modified":"2019-08-29T21:14:14","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T01:14:14","slug":"guillermo-del-toro-and-charlie-kaufman-teaming-for-slaughterhouse-five-adaptation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2013\/07\/09\/guillermo-del-toro-and-charlie-kaufman-teaming-for-slaughterhouse-five-adaptation\/","title":{"rendered":"Guillermo Del Toro And Charlie Kaufman Teaming For “Slaughterhouse Five” Adaptation"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"CharlieKaufman\"<\/a>The pairing of director Guillermo Del Toro and screenwriter Charlie Kaufman may seem strange at first, but the pair have found a project that just may compliment their two unique sensibilities. According to the print version of the UK’s Daily Telegraph (and brought into the cyber realm by The Playlist<\/a>), Kaufman will be handling the scripting duties on an adaptation of the classic Kurt Vonnegut novel Slaughterhouse Five<\/em> that Del Toro intends to direct.<\/p>\n

Speaking to the British paper Del Toro stated –<\/p>\n

Charlie [Kaufman] and I talked for about an hour-and-a-half and came up with a perfect way of doing the book… I love the idea of the Trafalmadorians [the aliens of ‘Slaughterhouse-Five’] — to be ‘unstuck in time,’ where everything is happening at the same time. And that’s what I want to do. It’s just a catch-22. The studio will make it when it’s my next movie, but how can I commit to it being my next movie until there’s a screenplay? Charlie Kaufman is a very expensive writer!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Currently, Del Toro has a deal with Universal Studios that could include this project. But first, he has his haunted house film, Crimson Peak<\/strong>, set to shoot in January and if Pacific Rim<\/strong> opens big this Friday, I would suspect that Warner Brothers will want him to make working on a sequel a high priority. And Del Toro’s relationship with Universal has not always been positive. The studio has famously shot down two other projects that the director was developing – his hard-R adaptation of H. P. Lovecraft’s classic horror novel At The Mountains Of Madness<\/strong> and a darker-edged stop-motion animation adaptation of Pinocchio<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two visionaries on a classic novel.<\/div>\n

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