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Guillermo del Toro To Direct Cold War Movie
Horror Master Announces Next Project
♦Our friends over at Variety have exclusive news that director Guillermo del Toro (Hellboy, Crimson Peak) will be tackling the Cold War in his next film…
Octavia Spencer is in negotiations to star in Guillermo del Toro’s upcoming Cold War movie for Fox Searchlight. Del Toro is writing, producing and directing the currently untitled film. The otherworldly love story is set against the backdrop of Cold War-era America circa 1963.
Del Toro had been weighing several films, but this mystery project was always a top priority, according to sources close to the pic. Shooting will start sometime this summer.
Spencer is on board to reprise her role in The Divergent Series: Allegiant and is also set to play God in The Shack, which bows later this year. She recently filmed Marc Webb’s Gifted opposite Chris Evans.
She also just landed a lead role as a mathematician in Fox 2000’s Hidden Figures, co-starring Taraji P. Henson.
Del Toro most recently directed the gothic thriller Crimson Peak, toplined by Mia Wasikowska, Tom Hiddleston and Jessica Chastain. He’s been developing a stop-motion animated Pinocchio project since 2008.
He’s also currently writing the screenplay for Pacific Rim: Maelstrom and working on FX vampire horror-drama The Strain, which he created with Chuck Hogan, based on their novel trilogy of the same name.
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