Guillermo del Toro to direct action film Zanbato for Bad Robot! Collider has brought word that Oscar-winning director Guillermo del Toro (The Shape of Water, Pacific Rim, Pan’s Labyrinth) has signed on to write and direct the action-thriller Zanbato for J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot Productions and Paramount Pictures.
Though never announced or discussed prior, del Toro has been working on the development for this film for over six years, crediting “JJ maximum security” for properly keeping the project a secret from the public.
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Abrams and del Toro have been producer masterminds for the past few years in Hollywood, with the former helping keep the reinvigorated Mission: Impossible franchise alive alongside the Cloverfield series and the recent horror actioner Overlord, while del Toro helped write and produce the Hobbit trilogy and Lionsgate’s upcoming adaptation of the classic children’s horror novel series Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, which is slated to hit theaters on August 9.