Guillermo del Toro
Mexican filmmaker
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| 2023 | The Haunted Mansion film was revived and released, directed by Justin Simien. |
| 2023 | Del Toro reflected on the Omnivore project, describing it as a very late teens, early twenties, underground comix-type of story with heavy metal influences. |
| November 2022 | After the premiere of Cabinet of Curiosities on Netflix, del Toro reveals plans for a potential second season and discusses potential directors. |
| October 2022 | Guillermo del Toro confirmed that his adaptation of 'Pinocchio' was the last film in the 'Childhood and War' trilogy. |
| September 2022 | Peter Bogdanovich's widow confirmed that del Toro's biopic about the Gershwin brothers, Our Love Is Here to Stay, was still being developed. |
| 2021 | Del Toro reconfirmed his interest in adapting Stephen King's Pet Sematary into a feature film. |
| December 2021 | Guillermo del Toro revealed that he pitched At the Mountains of Madness to Netflix after signing a multi-year deal with the streaming service in 2020. |
| 2020 | The live-action adaptation of The Witches, for which Guillermo del Toro was a screenwriter and producer, was released in 2020. |
| 2019 | Del Toro's collaboration with David S. Goyer on a potential Star Wars film about Jabba the Hutt was officially abandoned. |
| 2019 | Del Toro expressed uncertainty regarding the production of The Haunted Mansion, despite having a positive feeling about the scripts. |
| July 2019 | Ron Perlman expressed his desire to finish the Hellboy trilogy with Guillermo del Toro, disregarding the reboot and hoping for potential financing. |
| April 2019 | A reboot of Hellboy was released with no involvement from Guillermo del Toro. |
| March 2019 | Del Toro was attached to write and direct the action film Zanbato for Paramount Pictures and J. J. Abrams' Bad Robot. |
| June 2018 | In June 2018, Robert Zemeckis signed on as director of a live-action adaptation of The Witches, with Guillermo del Toro remaining as screenwriter and producer. |
| 2017 | At the Lumière Film Festival, del Toro was announced as the director of a documentary about Michael Mann. |
| 2017 | Del Toro stated that over 300 pieces of art were created during pre-production for At the Mountains of Madness, emphasizing the extensive work completed on the project. |
| 2017 | Guillermo del Toro later incorporated some of the story elements he envisioned for the Creature from the Black Lagoon remake into his film The Shape of Water, which was released in 2017. |
| February 21 2017 | Guillermo del Toro confirmed via Twitter that the third Hellboy movie had been scrapped. |
| September 26 2016 | Ron Perlman announced on Twitter that he was working on a new Hellboy film, but stated that del Toro was unlikely to return as director. |
| September 4 2016 | Brigham Taylor signed on to co-produce Guillermo del Toro's The Haunted Mansion film. |
| February 2016 | Steven S. DeKnight is announced as the new director of Pacific Rim sequel, with del Toro remaining as producer. |
| January 14 2016 | It was announced that del Toro would write the screenplay and direct Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. |
| January 7 2016 | Del Toro was in talks to direct a remake of Fantastic Voyage for 20th Century Fox. |
| 2015 | Del Toro first expresses interest in adapting Stephen King's Pet Sematary, calling the original work 'unrelentingly dark and emotional'. |
| 2015 | The film 'Pan' was released by New Line Cinema to critical dismay. |
| 2015 | Guillermo del Toro and Travis Beacham revived the project A Killing on Carnival Row, rebranding it as a series at Amazon Studios, with Del Toro set to co-write a pilot version of the script. |
| 2015 | It was revealed that the project Guillermo del Toro intended to make following Crimson Peak was Silver, confirming his ongoing interest in the film. |
| July 2015 | Filming for the Pacific Rim sequel was expected to begin in November, but production was halted due to conflicts between Universal and Legendary. |
| May 12 2015 | Derek Connolly was brought in to rewrite the script of the Pacific Rim sequel. |
| April 26 2015 | Del Toro announced via IGN that he was no longer working with Kojima on Silent Hills and that the project had been cancelled. |
| April 9 2015 | Variety reported that Ryan Gosling was in talks to star in The Haunted Mansion film, with D.V. DeVincentis working on the script. |
| 2014 | Guillermo del Toro withdrew from the director role of 'Beauty', choosing to take on a producer role alongside Denise Di Novi due to scheduling conflicts. |
| 2014 | Del Toro showed flexibility towards a PG-13 rating for At the Mountains of Madness and considered the possibility of production through Legendary Pictures. |
| 2014 | Del Toro announced his intentions to film a 'small' low-budget film in black-and-white before starting production on Pacific Rim 2, which he was attached to direct. |
| August 2014 | Del Toro was reported to be working on the PlayStation 4 video game Silent Hills with Hideo Kojima. |
| July 11 2014 | In a Reddit AMA, del Toro discussed the concept for Hellboy III, focusing on Hellboy confronting his destiny as the beast of the Apocalypse, although he expressed doubts about the film ever being made. |
| June 2014 | Del Toro stated that he would direct the sequel to Pacific Rim, which was slated for release on April 7, 2017. |
| 2013 | Despite the cancellation of Insane, Guillermo del Toro expressed that the game could still happen, leaving open the possibility for its revival. |
| 2013 | Guillermo del Toro declared in an interview that he would make one more attempt to get At the Mountains of Madness produced, with Tom Cruise still attached. |
| 2013 | Del Toro mentioned that The Left Hand of Darkness was still a project he loved and that Legendary Pictures was close to financing it, although they ultimately chose to make Crimson Peak instead. |
| July 2013 | In July 2013, Guillermo del Toro revealed that he and screenwriter Charlie Kaufman had planned an adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's novel Slaughterhouse-Five, expressing a desire to create a more literal interpretation than the original 1972 film adaptation. |
| July 8 2013 | Guillermo del Toro indicated that the third Hellboy film was unlikely to be released, suggesting the possibility of telling its story in comic book form, which was rejected by Hellboy creator Mike Mignola. |
| April 2013 | Del Toro and HBO collaborated on a pilot for a live-action TV series based on the manga Monster. |
| February 2013 | It was announced that del Toro was developing a new version of The Secret Garden with writer Lucy Alibar. |
| January 2013 | Del Toro confirmed his involvement in a live-action adaptation of the Justice League Dark comic series, titled Dark Universe. |
| September 2012 | HBO optioned Nutshell Studies with del Toro as executive producer and director. |
| August 2012 | Del Toro entered negotiations with 20th Century Fox to direct The Wolverine, but eventually left to pursue other projects. |
| August 16 2012 | IGN reported that the video game Insane was cancelled by the publisher THQ, marking a significant setback for del Toro's project. |
| August 7 2012 | Del Toro stated in an interview that he had submitted his final draft of The Haunted Mansion to Disney, and they responded positively to the screenplay. |
| July 2012 | In July 2012, Guillermo del Toro noted that he had ideas for a sequel to Pacific Rim. |
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