Guillermo del Toro Talks Producing Season 2 of The Strain; Update on Crimson Peak
The TV adaptation of Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan’s “The Strain” definitely had its fair share of ups and downs. There is one constant good though… del Toro plans on sticking around for all of the show’s second season as producer.
“My hope is that I remain in that capability for the entire season,” del Toro tells the Wall Street Journal. “I originally was going to do a very small project around April or May, but there are some issues in the family that I have to take care of. So I decided that staying put was the best idea for the family, and ‘The Strain’ allows me to do that, allows me to basically be 20 minutes away from home. I’ll be shooting the pre-credit prologue of the pilot, I’ll be shooting the Silver Angel black and white Mexican movies, and I’ve been doing second unit last week, and I’ll continue to do it, God willing, through the season.”
As for what to expect in “The Strain’s” second season…
“The one thing the first season was short of was all the biological talk that occurred in the first book. It ended up being more driven by set pieces or by character interaction than the actual way the epidemic is dealt with. The other thing that I need to do is expand the epidemic more in terms of social consequence and scope. The way the epidemic starts to grow quadrant by quadrant and starts affecting the lives of people in the city, in the country, in the world — that’s part of the growth of season two. We need to lay the seeds for the apocalypse, essentially. So, there’s plenty of work, and not only plenty of work, but plenty of things that make it naturally: A. a growth season and B: a different season than the first one. I love that thing that Carlton came up with about Palmer throwing the Secretary of Health over the balcony. (laughs) Reading it, I thought it was completely brutal, but watching it, I absolutely loved it. (laughs) It’s one of my favorite moments in the series. It’s completely unexpected, but let me go back on track. What we need to deal with now is that the Master has control of many more strings and to grow the epidemic disproportionately this season.”
As for his next feature film, Crimson Peak…
“Since we have the luxury of time because the movie doesn’t come out until October next year… originally, I was going to deliver it in December, and I’d been able to try different things, different cuts, tweak the effects, tweak the music, probably more than any movie I’ve ever done. I have the license now to deliver the movie in January or February. It’s frankly addictive to have that much time. I’m not sure it will not be too addictive. I’m working with the same VFX company that does ‘The Strain’ so we can tweak every shot. Every time we meet for ‘The Strain,’ we meet for Crimson Peak, too. I think it’s the most beautifully designed movie I’ve done, and the one that, because of this very distended pre-production and post-production, I’ve been able to design basically every part of the visuals on it. I’m very enamored. Hopefully people will find it a rewarding Gothic romance when it comes out.
Look for more on both projects soon!
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