\u201cThe Weinsteins, hands down,\u201d del Toro told Deadline\u2019s Mike Fleming Jr. in an appearance at Contenders Film: Los Angeles on Saturday. \u201cBecause on the other thing, you knew what they wanted. The Weinsteins, who the f*ck knew what they wanted?\u201d<\/p>\n
Sharing that \u201cthere\u2019s images\u201d and \u201cmoments\u201d in Mimic \u201cthat come from that ordeal,\u201d del Toro noted that his Weinstein brothers debacle unfortunately \u201clasted more than 72 days\u201d and was far more unpredictable of a scenario to grapple with than what he had while teaming with Avatar helmer James Cameron to get his father back, in an experience he said bonded the two filmmakers as \u201cbrothers.\u201d<\/p>\n
Del Toro was on hand at the DGA Theater to accept Deadline\u2019s inaugural Contenders Hall of Fame Award, as well as to discuss his latest film, Frankenstein, which he said marked the culmination of \u201cmore than 30 years of career and 50 years of obsession.\u201d<\/p>\n
During the sit-down, the filmmaker also shared his feelings on artificial intelligence \u2014 the technology poised to disrupt entertainment in innumerable ways \u2014 which he said \u201ccan be summarized as \u2018F*ck AI.’\u201d<\/p>\n
For all he knows, del Toro said, AI \u201cmay be useful for architecture, chemistry, medicine. \u2026 But as far as art, I don\u2019t think any artist raised their hand and said, \u2018Can we have AI?\u2019 I don\u2019t think so.\u201d Comparing the technology to an uninvited party guest, he said AI \u201cknows what has been done; it doesn\u2019t know what to do next. It\u2019s not a human.\u201d<\/p>\n
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RELATED: \u2018Frankenstein\u2019 Composer Alexandre Desplat Used Score To Contrast Guillermo Del Toro\u2019s Horrors On Screen \u2013 Sound & Screen Film<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n What\u2019s most interesting to the creative to consider, when it comes to AI, is whether we\u2019ll see the moment he considers the \u201cthreshold,\u201d when people are willing to pay $12-$13 to watch a film or listen to a song made by artificial intelligence. \u201cIf that happens,\u201d he reflected, \u201cthen we\u2019ll get the movies we deserve, I\u2019m afraid to say.\u201d<\/p>\n RELATED: The 2026 Oscars: Everything We Know About The Ceremony, Host, Date & More So Far<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n On the subject of his Frankenstein, starring Oscar Isaac as Victor Frankenstein and Jacob Elordi as the Creature, del Toro said, \u201cIt really is an obsession that started at 7.\u201d<\/p>\n Referencing the adage that \u201cwe\u2019re born with one or two songs in ourselves,\u201d he said that Frankenstein is one of those for him \u2014\u00a0\u201cI am Johnny Cash singing \u2018Hurt.’\u201d<\/p>\n On the subject of his lifelong passion project, he added: \u201cI aged into it. I failed into it; I succeeded into it. My knees hurt; my soul hurts. I have f*cked up enough that I feel the pain of the questions that [Mary Shelley] has. And I try to sing that song as if it\u2019s new.\u201d<\/p>\n RELATED: The Movies That Have Made More Than $1 Billion At The Global Box Office<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Premiering at the Venice Film Festival<\/a>, del Toro\u2019s Frankenstein debuted October 17 in limited release on before hitting Netflix on November 7.<\/p>\n Check back Monday for the panel video.<\/p>\n Best of Deadline<\/strong><\/p>\n Sign up for Deadline’s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"1997 was a memorable year for Guillermo del Toro for two reasons: His father was kidnapped in Guadalajara,…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":382616,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[185,144865,171,58203,7494,183000,67,132,68,99654,182999],"class_list":{"0":"post-382615","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-del-toro","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-guillermo-del-toro","12":"tag-harvey-weinstein","13":"tag-mike-fleming-jr","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-victor-frankenstein","18":"tag-weinsteins"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115558500137998459","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}