‘Fury’: Guillermo del Toro & Oscar Isaac Reuniting For “Very Cruel/Violent” Thriller Described As ‘Nightmare Alley’ Meets ‘My Dinner With Andre’

Oscar-winner Guillermo del Toro‘s “Frankenstein” is being screened at the Toronto International Film Festival, and the writer/director has announced that he’s reteaming with Oscar Isaac for a new thriller titled “Fury.”

During a TIFF panel, del Toro announced the project (via Deadline) and said, “I’m writing a project to do with Oscar [Isaac]. I’m writing it right now, and it’s called ‘Fury,’ and essentially it’s going back to [the] sort of thriller aspects of ‘Nightmare Alley,’ very cruel, very violent. Like ‘My Dinner with Andre,’ but [with] killing people after each course.”

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He continued to explain why ‘Fury’ came together and how getting older/regret is influencing that narrative, “Because I’m very interested in the violence we do to each other, and we do it with our minds, we do it with our souls, and we do it physically. And I think it’s new questions [I’m having]; I’m 60 now, so I’ve gone from asking where I’m going and [being a] father and son to [experiencing] regret. I’m in the regret decade, so expect a lot of regret.”

This “My Dinner With Andre” (directed by French filmmaker Louis Malle) mention is actually quite tantalizing, because the 1981 pic was very much a hang-out movie (having very limited sets like “Reservior Dogs” or “12 Angry Men” ) set mostly at their table at a restaurant, as it mostly covers an in-depth and sometimes introspective dinner conversation between actors/co-writers Wallace Shawn and the late Andre Gregory.

Del Toro also gave a minor update on the status of his next stop-motion animated film at Netflix, “The Buried Giant,” reaffirming it won’t be for children.

“I am, right now, preparing a stop-motion adaptation of ‘The Buried Giant,’ the Kazuo Ishiguro novel. And it is going to be an epic stop-motion that is not going to be for kids. It’s truly exploring the capacity to act, of a stop-motion project, and fuse a world the way you would do it if it was a live-action.”

We have to assume that “Fury” will be shot primarily in Toronto (so, makes sense he’d announce the project at TIFF), as del Toro has spent the majority of his career shooting his features there, such as “The Shape of Water,” “Nightmare Alley,” “Frankenstein,” and time there kicked off with the creature feature horror pic “Mimic” from the 1990s.

You can read The Playlist’s review of “Frankenstein” from the Venice Film Festival coverage here, as the latest take on the classic Mary Shelley-penned gothic tale is heading to theaters on October 17 before heading to Netflix on November 7.