Guillermo del Toro

The obsessive director wants to commit himself to promoting his current film before he starts up on the next one.

For those of you who don’t incessantly follow everything Guillermo del Toro is working on at any given time, it should be exciting news that he’s been working on an adaptation of sci-fi adventure Fantastic Voyage for a while, and was planning on starting production on it once he was done with The Shape of Water. The bad news is: production has been delayed to possibly next fall, and we won’t get to see the final product until 2020.

In honor of ‘Atomic Blonde,’ we assembled this awesome playlist of the most jaw-dropping, bone-breaking fights in recent movies.

Whether it’s horror, fairy tale, or a superhero movie, getting inside the mind of Guillermo del Toro is always a welcomed breaks from reality. Following the ghostly Crimson Peak, the filmmaker is returning to a more Pan’s Labyrinth-esque creature feature with The Shape of Water, though this latest film looks noticably less freaky than that 2006 favorite.

Animation has gotten so good, and comes from so many different sources lately, that we’ve begun to take this cartoon renaissance for granted. With so many animated films coming from the big studios, small indies, and great foreign artists, it can be easy to overlook something like The Book of Life, which earned just under $100 million worldwide in 2014. But The Book of Life, which was produced by Guillermo del Toro, was a big enough hit to get a sequel into development.

FX and Guillermo del Toro’s The Strain has shown us a bleak, vampire-run future one teaser at a time, but the full trailer is finally ready to fight back. See for yourself, as the fourth and final season’s full promo teases a shocking twist for David Bradley’s Sertrakian.

It was a bit of a bummer when we heard that Guillermo del Toro’s Hellboy trilogy was not to be concluded after all, and even weirder when Hellboy creator Mike Mignola dropped the news that the series would be rebooted, and stranger still when none other than David Harbour was chosen to portray the character. It stands to reason that del Toro and Ron Perlman are pretty bummed, but Perlman recently told fans that he’s fine with the reboot, and happy for Harbour.

We’ve waited since at least 2005 for some version of Travis Beacham’s Killing on Carnival Row to make it off the page, and Amazon is finally moving forward – at a price. The streaming service has issued an eight-episode order for the horror-fantasy procedural, but without the involvement of project champion Guillermo del Toro.

Darkness has officially fallen on The Strain, and not even the light of a July premiere may lift it. The fourth and final season of FX’s Guillermo del Toro-adapted vampire drama has an official summer debut date, and an ultra-bleak new synopsis picking up after Season 3’s nuclear finale.

The fate of Hellboy has long been trapped in development hell, boy. Franchise director Guillermo Del Toro and star Ron Perlman were both interested in another installment, but legal complications made that tricky, then there was scheduling stuff, then the studio was being uncooperative, you name it. Del Toro said it was definitely gonna happen, then that it wouldn’t happen, then that it might happen, then that it probably wouldn’t but hey you never know, then that yes, there absolutely 100% will not be a Hellboy 3. And he’s holding true to those final words, because there won’t be a third chapter of his Hellboy franchise — as the new one’s gonna be a [deep breath] reboot.