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Disney Teams Up With Guillermo Del Toro!

Source:Ryan Rotten, Managing Editor
September 11, 2009


The Mouse House has been making some major moves the last two weeks. Recently, the big news was the Walt Disney Studios and Marvel partnership. Today, it announced it will be collaborating with Guillermo del Toro; together they're moving forward on a new production label called Disney Double Dare You.

The outfit will create new animated films geared towards kids but steeped in dark material. All films will be produced under the guidance of del Toro, who originated the concept and the design of DDY and who will also direct certain projects. The first project in development for the new label is called Trollhunters, an original del Toro story which he will produce.

Del Toro says, "As a director, I love to take audiences into fantastic new worlds and provide them with some anxious moments in the process. It is part of the Disney canon to create thrilling, unforgettable moments and villains in all their classic films. It is my privilege for DDY to continue in this tradition. To partner up with The Walt Disney Studios, with the support of Dick Cook and John Lasseter, is to belong to a storytelling partnership that I admire deeply. It is a true honor. I look forward to coming up with fresh and original stories that will take Disney films in a whole new direction. The emphasis is on fun, and we have some great ideas already on the storyboards."

Del Toro is currently directing back-to-back feature film adaptations of the Tolkien classic, The Hobbit, for release in 2011 and 2012. He's also producing Don't Be Afraid of the Dark.

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Posted by: Ryan on September 11, 2009 at 16:12:28

Damn how many movies is this guy involved with??? I hope he puts them all aside and start's working on frankenstein really looking forward to his take on the monster.

Posted by: ico on September 11, 2009 at 17:13:43

Sounds like a great idea but i doubt it will last.

Posted by: D L Riker on September 11, 2009 at 17:30:54

Stuff the lot of them, and get on with 'At the Mountains of Madness'!

Posted by: Horror Live on September 11, 2009 at 19:26:02

I want to see Hellboy 3 and Frankenstein.

Posted by: chris on September 11, 2009 at 19:51:46

im starting to like disney more and more,and i love marvel. i hope they get all their other characters back like x-men,and spiderman so they can do them right.

Posted by: Calum on September 11, 2009 at 20:42:15

HELLLLS YEAH

after pirates they need to do some darker material this'll make em more money than Hannah Montana or those Virgin Brothers

Posted by: Kalcean on September 11, 2009 at 22:32:35

i still want to see him do "At The Mountains of Madness". great story and i think he would do an excellent job on it. hell, those with a keen eye would notice one of the creatures from it showed up in a quick cameo in the bprd builing early in Hellboy 2

Posted by: Fierce_Creature on September 12, 2009 at 05:47:14

Wow Disney realized they could go back to the dark again after some decades of absence.
You wanna see dark Disney? Check out The Watcher in the Woods, Something Wicked This Way Comes, The Black Hole, and Return to Oz!

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