Guillermo del Toro was awarded a BFI Fellowship, the British Film Institute’s highest honor, earlier this week in London. And to celebrate the award, the Mexican filmmaker has taken part in a series of talks and presentations across the British capital. This evening, he sat for an onstage career Q&A session with film historian and BFI executive Jason Wood.
The talk was impassioned and wide-ranging, with Wood, a longtime del Toro interlocutor, quizzing the filmmaker on everything from his childhood in Guadalajara, Mexico, to his passion for design and scrapbooking. During the session, Del Toro also teased his next production, a stop-motion adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s 2015 novel The Buried Giant. Related Stories News BFI Pleaded With Government To Exclude UK Screen Industries From Trump Trade Deal, Saying It Would Cause "Fundamental Harm" News Guillermo Del Toro Praises Boots Riley's "Hand-Made" Effects In 'I Love Boosters'
The novel follows an elderly British couple, Axl and Beatrice, living in a fictional post-Arthurian England in which no one is able to retain long-term memories.
Del Toro has adapted the novel with Matilda the Musical scribe Dennis Kelly, and he told the audience at the BFI Southbank in London that he decided the story had to be told in stop-motion, like his 2022 adaptation of Pinocchio, to protect the story’s authenticity
Source: deadline.com