Even with a busy film slate that includes "The Hobbit," "At the Mountains of Madness" and "Frankenstein," not to mention a comic book franchise of his own in "Hellboy," director Guillermo Del Toro is making room for yet another movie, this time rooted in the DC Universe.

According to a report from Bloody Disgusting, Del Toro will produce an adaptation of "Deadman" based on the DC Comics character with Nikolaj Arcel currently attached to direct.

As is the case with most DC Comics properties, the film will be produced through Warner Bros. Read more...

Last week's announcement that the brilliant Robert Kirkman comic book series "The Walking Dead" was headed to AMC as a television series directed by Frank Darabont ("The Shawshank Redemption," "The Mist") was easily one of my favorite stories of the week. The combination of Kirkman's bleak, character-driven story with Darabont's considerable talent at bringing exactly those sort of stories to the screen seems like the perfect match—but it's a project that almost went in an entirely different direction, according to a recent report.

According to BleedingCool, "Hellboy" (and "The Hobbit") director Guillermo Del Toro was originally attached to bring Kirkman's tale of life after of the zombie apocalypse to the small screen. Instead of landing at AMC, the series was proposed as an HBO project, intended to be a sister series to vampire drama "True Blood." Read more...

When "Hellboy" and "The Hobbit" director Guillermo Del Toro dropped by Splash Page HQ recently to talk about his new novel, "The Strain," we also managed to pick his brain about a few other topics near and dear to our comics-lovin' hearts.

Earlier this week, we gave you what he had to say about the future of the "Hellboy" film franchise (and whether that universe will eventually merge with the Hellboy's comics continuity), but one thing that definitely surprised us during the conversation was Del Toro's confession that at one point, he came very close to bringing Marvel's Thunder God, Thor, to the screen.

They approached me for 'Thor,'" Del Toro told MTV News when asked whether Marvel had tried to tag him for any of their upcoming movies. "And for a long time we talked about that, because the mythology and the images were very attractive to me." Read more...

"Hellboy" and "Hellboy II" director Guillermo del Toro recently dropped by Splash Page HQ to discuss his new book "The Strain," and while the horror novel is certainly a good read, we had to ask about a few other important topics while we had the celebrated filmmaker's ear -- namely, the future of the "Hellboy" film franchise.

"I talked about that with [Hellboy creator] Mike Mignola, and I respect very much his decision," Del Toro told MTV News when asked if he had any plans to expand the "Hellboy" movie universe into comics. "He said to me, people have enough trouble distinguishing what comes from the movie and the comic." Read more...

This Thursday, filmmaker Guillermo del Toro will be stopping by to chat with us on his upcoming book/movie project, "The Strain." For those who don't know about it -- and if you like del Toro, then you should -- "The Strain" is the first volume in a planned trilogy about... wait for it... vampires. Yeah, those blood-suckers are pretty popular. That first book actually hits shelves today, so make sure you pick yourself up a copy.

Okay, them's the basics. Now here comes the fun part. Del Toro is stopping by on Thursday to promote "The Strain" of course, and we know you fans are burning with questions about that and some of his other projects. Well, we want to know what those questions are.

Submit your queries to tips@mtvmoviesblog.com and we'll hit del Toro with the best of them.

Coming off a strong 2008 for “Hellboy II: The Golden Army,” director Guillermo Del Toro sounds cautious regarding plans for a third installment. That doesn’t mean that he and Universal don’t have a tentative time table for "Hellboy 3," however.

“We’re three, four years away from anything happening—so I don’t think anyone is, you know, in a big hurry,” he revealed in an exclusive interview with MTV News. Read more...

With work on "The Hobbit" really starting to move forward, Guillermo del Toro updated MTV News this week with exclusive scripting, casting and pre-production news, including confirmation that "Hellboy" creator Mike Mignola will be coming aboard for early visualization.

"We are sketching and designing with Weta's John Howe, and [Adam Lee]," del Toro offered. "Mike Mignola is coming soon. He's going to do a stint on the design team."

This is good news for fans of Mignola, who worked with del Toro on both "Hellboy" films as well as providing some art for "Pan's Labyrinth."

For more of MTV's chat with Guillermo del Toro about "The Hobbit," head over to MTV.com.

You would think a Grant Morrison-Guillermo del Toro team-up would be a no-brainer -- but the two have been trying to push an idea through the Hollywood machine for several years now. And at this point, it seems to be stuck.

“Sleepless Knights” was an idea Morrison scripted that would be a sort of fairy tale, which del Toro was attached to direct. Thanks to a time-machine error, the world gets stuck on Halloween, permanently -- kind of like “Groundhog Day,” but for everyone. Ghosts, goblins, and other creatures think of it as a free-for-all, and start running wild. That is, until a new kind of Ghostbusters, called the "Sleepless Knights," start fighting them. Read more...

In this day and age, when it comes to comic films and their sequels, it's clear that getting the same director back is just as vital as having the original film's stars return. After all, the internet blew up when Marvel made it official that Jon Favreau had signed on for "Iron Man 2," and waits with baited breath to hear whether or not Christopher Nolan will come back to the Batman franchise he's helped create.

That being said, fans of the "Hellboy" franchise should be a bit concerned with comments made by director Guillermo del Toro which ran on IESB.com this week. When asked if he'd be willing to give up the "Hellboy" franchise considering the workload he'll be undertaking once production officially begins on "The Hobbit," del Toro replied, "I would love to do the third one and finish this incarnation of Hellboy the way we started it, consistent with the way we started it. But, it's up to them. The reality is that those are not decisions under a director's control." Read more...

"That really isn't my Hellboy," laughed creator Mike Mignola when asked about the "Hellboy II: the Golden Army" scene our MTV Movies Blog team picked as the summer's best movie moment. The memorable scene features a drunken Hellboy and Abe Sapien belting out Barry Manilow's "Can’t Smile Without You."

It's a scene that never would have happened in the comics -- it was "too emotional," said Mignola -- but it worked for the movie.

"Guillermo del Toro wanted a drunk singing scene," Mignola said. "I just went, 'You're the boss. Whatever you think is going to work.' I'm shy about those Hellboy-Liz Sherman moments, but he knows how to pull those things off."

But if it was just intended to be your run-of-the-mill drunk singing scene, why Barry Manilow? Read more...