Hellboy II

[daddytodd]

If the Guillermo del Toro who directed "El laberinto del fauno" shows up to direct "The Hobbit," it promises to be a great movie. If the del Toro who wrote and directed "Hellboy II" shows up in new Zealand, then all bets are off.

Comments

[deafguy.livejournal.com]

*shrugs* I understand your opinions. No harm done :)

But why blame Guillermo del Toro for your boredom? Wouldn't it make more sense to blame the writers for the boring script? I probably don't know enough about how movies are made, but I thought the director was in charge of the filming style? (i.e., the costumes/scenery choices and the way it was filmed) Would he actually have any influence over the script? Sure, he could suggest/embellish changes here and there, but it doesn't make sense to me that the director could make a script boring unless he actually wrote it?

[daddytodd.livejournal.com]

del Toro was credited with "screenplay" and co-credited with "story." That means he worked up the plot with another guy (Mike Mingola, creator/writer of the Hellboy comic) and then wrote the actual script himself. So yeah, he gets the blame ;-)