Another del Toro movie won't be made

Aw. shoot.

March 8, 2011 at 7:23PM
(The Minnesota Star Tribune)
(The Minnesota Star Tribune)

We all played this game. Red light! Green light! Red light:

That's io9.com summarizing a big Deadline piece, which provides some specifics:

This comes on the heels of del Toro not doing "The Hobbit." The stories say that the movie would have to make half a billion dollars to break even, which is lot for a terrifying movie about . . . evil. Horrible, horrible nameless evil.

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