During a recent interview, Del Toro remembered one such meeting with a studio which he dubbed the ‘worst pitch meeting of his career’.
Del Toro is currently working on the star-studded feature Nightmare Alley, as well as a stop-motion musical adaption of Pinnochio.
I get in and I sit down and they say, ‘What do you think about The Fly II?’ and I said, ‘I think you shouldn’t make it.’
I just go at it and I say, ‘This is what I want, this is what I got,’ and that’s when I say a movie is successful or not.
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