Cabinet of curiosities it is the idea of Guillermo del Toro, but the realization is also entrusted to talented but decidedly younger directors: a conscious choice of the Mexican filmmaker, who also wants to apply for the second season a selection method that favors the training and integration of new directors specialized in horror and fantasy.
My entire career, from the beginning, has been about supporting the community. The more you have the right to speak, the more you can do it. So I could support Jorge Gutierrez with Book of Life or Andy Muschietti with Mammal, or Juan Antonio Bayona with Orphanage. But with an anthology you support eight filmmakers in one fell swoop. We have created a situation where you are in fact, shall we say, in complete control.
In short, more than a producer, almost an ambition to act as a mentor for a new generation of genre filmmakers:
Even if you disagree with me – you can – I will give you all the support I can so that we can create the ideal conditions within an hour. (…)
Look, I’m fifty-eight years old and have a thirty-year career. It’s a miracle to last three decades as a storyteller. If there’s anything I can do to inspire a change in[impostazione produttiva del] kindly, i like it.
I have a list [di possibili nuovi registi]. For example, I tried to get Jayro Bustamente, but I couldn’t because of the pandemic. Speaking of Mexican directors, there’s Isaa Lopez. He was supposed to shoot one of the episodes, but then he had True Detective and couldn’t. Boots Riley wrote and was set to direct an episode, but was given the go-ahead for his own series. I could go on and reveal the entire second season to you, but I won’t!
Larry Fessenden is 100% at the top of the list for season two. It’s one of those names I fought for at the time to be nominated at the Spirit Awards with Habit, which I think is phenomenal. I have been in contact with him ever since. We were very close to remaking The Orphanage.
For the second season too, he would therefore like to put his signature on the concept of the work and on the stories, while leaving a lot of autonomy to the individual filmmakers:
I would like to write the opening and closing story for next season and leave the central to others. What I do is put together stories that haven’t been told yet that might be a good fit for a filmmaker. For example, The Autopsy was a story loved by horror fans, but not widely known, and deemed unsuitable. So I said to myself “let’s adjust it”.
Cabinet of Curiosities is a horror-themed anthology, featuring unpublished stories ranging from macabre, magical, gothic to grotesque. It consists of eight episodes, with two original stories by del Toro himself, and with a group of writers and directors chosen by the filmmaker. Among the interpreters we find Crispin Glover, Ben Barnes and Rupert Grint.
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