Guillermo del Toro may have his hands full right now, but his hands might be getting even more fuller (lame line, I know) as the man might be taking on Slaughterhouse-Five, an experimental book by Kurt Vonnegut.
The book tells the story of a man captured by Germans and put in an old slaughterhouse with other POWs. He is eventually abducted by aliens who know the past and present, but can’t do anything to change it.
Here’s what del Toro had to say:
The book is so experimental in so many ways – now that movies have the possibility of being non-linear, you have so many possibilities to do the book honor by attempting at it. You could not tell that novel if your filmic language was academic. One of the main things is that you can do the juxtapositions of time because the way academic storytelling would tell you is that there are flash-forwards and flashbacks. But the reality is the whole essence of the book is that the character is unstuck in time. Unstuck in time. So you do the implications of what that means, but you are really going into pushing narrative. You’re not watching a flashback and you’re not watching a flash-forward.
This possible project joins the list of many movies del Toro might be doing after The Hobbit films. There’s his new take on Frankenstein, then there’s Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness, and more.
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