Guillermo del Toro was recently awarded a BFI Fellowship, the British Film Institute's highest honor, and during a q&a with film historian and BFI executive Jason Wood the filmmaker teased his next production, a stop-motion adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro's novel The Buried Giant (2015) that he is making at Netflix, Deadline reported. The novel "follows an elderly British couple, Axl and Beatrice, living in a fictional post-Arthurian England in which no one is able to retain long-term memories."
Del Toro described the film as a "fascinatingly difficult stop-motion movie for adults" that is being produced "without any concession to a family audience."
He added that he chose to tell the story in stop-motion, as he did with Pinocchio (2022), to protect the story's authenticity: "If you do a live action movie about an old couple crossing a landscape full of trolls and fairies, and there are special effects and actors.... I want all the creatures to be of the same material. It's gonna take us years. And it's incredibly difficult."