Dishin' With Del Toro

I can't be the only one who drooled reading this short interview with Pan's Labyrinth director Guillermo Del Toro over at Ain't It Cool. This guy can do practically no wrong in my book—even Blade II and Mimic are worth checking out for his distinctive visual imagination.

Here's the gist of the interview: he's producing Juan Antonion Bayona's feature debut, The Orphanage, which looks awesome, and he hopes to produce many more first-time directors; he's got Hellboy 2 coming out soon, which you know is gonna be awesome; Del Toro's not directing Halo but, just like us, he thinks that a Neill Blomkamp version would be pretty frickin' awesome; and he's got fascinating things to say about the challenges of making a movie out of H.P. Lovecraft's In the Mountains of Madness, which—hello? Del Toro? Lovecraft? Awesome!

So, follow that link already! It's a cavalcade of awesome. Del Toro's straight talk on the subject of film is always enlightening and entertaining and dammit I want to see a Del Toro-helmed In the Mountains of Madness right. Freaking. Now.