Guillermo Del Toro Developing A Secret Movie Pitched As "WALL-E Meets SPLASH"

While we wait to see if anything ends up happening with Hellboy 3 (which star Ron Perlman recently called "f*cked up"), writer/director Guillermo del Toro continues to stay busy. He's still involved with FX's The Strain, is working on Amazon's Killing on Carnival Row, has his newest feature film Crimson Peak coming out in a month, is working on Pacific Rim: Maelstrom (which has reportedly been delayed), and now The Tracking Board says there's another project he's adding to the pile.

According to their report, del Toro is developing a secret film project with Fox Searchlight that's an original story pitched as "Wall-E meets Splash." So...a movie in which a lonely robot falls in love with a mermaid? We don't know, but del Toro wrote the script and is attached to direct. There aren't any other details available at this time, so we're not sure if this will be told using animation or live action, but he's had extensive experience with both and the premise sounds like it could go either way. Any new del Toro project is certainly something worth keeping an eye on, so we'll keep you updated with more info as soon as we hear it.