Guillermo Del Toro and Disney form: Double Dare You

[Cognitive Gear]

Disney, with Guillermo Del Toro have created a new brand, Double Dare You.

Del Toro added, "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."

[GhostontheNet]

Wow, so Disney now has not just Tim Burton and Hayao Miyazaki, but also Guillermo del Torro on their side? That is a very gutsy, but very sensible thing to do. These days I openly admit that I look forward to every new Disney film, and del Torro knows enough about the workings of nightmares and fairy tales that he doesn't disappoint. Indeed, the logo alone clues us in that we are in for some rather Grimm tales. Who knows, give it six years, and they might even start working with Dario Argento, lol.

[Warrior 4 Jesus]

Family-friendly horror stories? I'm looking forward to it! But seriously, this is an odd but wise move on Disney's part. It'll be interesting to see what Guillermo del Torro, John Lasseter, Dick Cook cook up.

[Maledicte]

Who knows, give it six years, and they might even start working with Dario Argento, lol.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! XD

I'm interested to see what will come of this brand. Please, make animated horror movies! Come on, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow was the only one Disney ever made! MOAR!

[ShiroiHikari]

Could it be that Disney is, at last, pulling its head out of its you-know-what?

[bigsleepj]

Could it be that Disney is, at last, pulling its head out of its you-know-what?

... out of it's infamous movie vault?

[GhostontheNet]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! XD

I'm interested to see what will come of this brand. Please, make animated horror movies! Come on, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow was the only one Disney ever made! MOAR!

Not a fan Argento's giallo and fantastique horror films, I take it? Personally, I think the Italian auteur's films are quite brilliant. I'm only joking, of course, about him working with Disney. While Argento's Suspiria and Inferno make self-conscious reference to Disney's animated films (he even filmed the former with the same technicolor camera used in Snow White), a director who has made his career presenting murder scenes as gruesome as they are stylish just isn't going to get the contract. Indeed, Argento's giallo films are often lumped in with the slasher subgenre of horror. This I think to be unfair, however, because his work has a different set of themes and ideological commitments as compared with that distinctly American category of horror.

[Maledicte]

My response was mostly in regards to his Phantom of the Opera, the only movie of his that I've seen (and not even the whole thing). It's not even a good horror movie, but it is horrifically bad. He *does* have a good use of color, though.

"DARIO! IT'S - YOUR - DAUGHTER!!"

Also, nice one, Bigsleep.

[GhostontheNet]

My response was mostly in regards to his Phantom of the Opera, the only movie of his that I've seen (and not even the whole thing). It's not even a good horror movie, but it is horrifically bad. He *does* have a good use of color, though.

"DARIO! IT'S - YOUR - DAUGHTER!!"

Also, nice one, Bigsleep.

Argento's work has its ups and downs. I haven't seen his take on the Phantom of the Opera mythos yet, so I can't speak for it one way or another. I tend to recommend Suspiria and Deep Red as introductions to his work, which are more representative of his creative skill. Argento is indeed a master of the use of color, as well as some very difficult crane shots (i.e. the bird's eye point of view shot from a circling raven in flight in Opera). I'm not quite sure what you're getting at by "DARIO! IT'S - YOUR - DAUGHTER!!", so I can't comment one way or another. Suffice to say, however, that neither the good people nor the bad people have any real protection from calamity in Argento's film worlds, and this should be taken into account.