Nightmare Alley Director Guillermo del Toro Doesn’t See Himself Developing Video Games Again

Editors note: Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series debuts and celebrates the scripts of films that will be factors in this year’s movie awards race.

It’s undeniable that Bradley Cooper is the star of Guillermo del Toro’s “Nightmare Alley.” The actor is in nearly every scene and is the driving force for much of the plot of the film. That said, in an ensemble filled with incredible performances, it’s the three women in Cooper’s character’s life that really fill in the details of “Nightmare Alley.” READ MORE: Guillermo Del Toro Found ‘Nightmare Alley’s’ Godzilla In Cate Blanchett [Interview] With “Nightmare Alley” in theaters now and being one of the buzziest films this awards season, we’re thrilled to give our readers an exclusive look at a featurette that illuminates the importance of the women in the film.

Tributes are pouring in after director and standard-bearer for classic Hollywood moviemaking Peter Bogdanovich died today at 82.

On paper, there isn’t a whole lot that would seemingly connect Guillermo del Toro’s newest film, “Nightmare Alley,” with his upcoming animated feature, “Pinocchio.” And when del Toro was asked about that by Rotten Tomatoes, the filmmaker is quick to point out the obvious connections with their carnival settings, but he is also able to explain just how “Pinocchio” differs.

Guillermo del Toro has been directing movies since 1986 with his first short film Doña Lupe. Many were familiar with his horror films in the 1990s but it wasn’t until 2006 Pan’s Labyrinth that made him a household name. 

Jon Burlingame editorIt isn’t often that a film composer consults with the star of the movie about his theme. But it happened on “Nightmare Alley,” as Bradley Cooper attended some of the recording sessions for Guillermo del Toro’s spooky noir film.“We did the piano sessions in L.A., on an old Motown Steinway,” says composer Nathan Johnson (“Knives Out”).

Since his 1993 debut “Cronos,” it’s always been explicit that Guillermo del Toro is a genre filmmaker at heart. Over the years, the director has tackled several different kinds of horror films.

Lady Gaga can’t recommend Bradley Cooper‘s new movie enough.

NEW YORK -- With a touch of Barbara Stanwyck, a sumptuous Art Deco office and a deadly shade of crimson lipstick, Cate Blanchett plays a femme fatale in Guillermo del Toro’s “Nightmare Alley” with cunning embrace and subversion of the film noir archetype.If “Nightmare Alley” is del Toro’s lushly composed love letter to noir, the movie’s pulpy heart is in Blanchett’s conniving psychiatrist Lilith Ritter.

Holdovers Drive My Car, Red Rocket and The Scary Of Sixty First looked good in limited runs on a weekend with few new specialty releases and even fewer numbers. Streamers – which presented The Lost Daughter (Netflix), Swan Song (Apple) and The Tender Bar (Amazon), don’t reveal them and smaller distributors often report early in the week.

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“Nightmare Alley” is an adaptation of the William Lindsey Gresham novel of the same name, and finds del Toro working without supernatural elements for the first time in his career. Production initially began in January 2020, but COVID shut down filming in March.

Warning: The below contains spoilers for “Nightmare Alley”“Nightmare Alley” is unique in filmmaker Guillermo del Toro’s filmography in a couple of different respects. For one, it’s his first film without any supernatural elements whatsoever.

latest film — about a small-time carnival worker (Bradley Cooper) who grifts his way into high society by claiming to read minds and commune with the dead — has all the trappings of the genre: drunk degenerates and femme fatales; dimly lit streets and stalking shadows; greed, lust, murder, hubris and a creeping existential dread.

After the release of “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” Leonardo DiCaprio was reportedly offered quite a few films. Obviously.

Clayton Davis In Variety‘s Up Next, we asked four Oscar winners to pick the one person who represents the future of Hollywood.Our cover subject Guillermo del Toro is one of the most prolific directors working today, but he’s acutely aware that it carries an important responsibility to other upcoming filmmakers. He executes that duty by producing movies that have him working with other artists, including animator Jorge R.

Guillermo del Toro’s remake of the 1947 thriller Nightmare Alley is going full noir next month. Searchlight Pictures said today that a black-and-white version of the new pic starring Bradley Cooper will get a limited theatrical release in Los Angeles.