del Toro and Lucinda Coxon (The Heart of Me, The Eternal Not) are rewriting the original script by del Toro and Matthew Robbins that is described as a classic ghost story with a modern twist. It will center on a woman (Mia Wasikowska) who suspects her husband is hiding something,
Charlie Hunnam, Benedict Cumberbatch and Jessica Chastain also star.
del Toro will also direct the pic with cameras set to roll early next year
He tells STYD that the film's scale is small--along the lines of "The Devil's Backbone" and "Cronos".
"Crimson Peak' is a much, much, much smaller movie, completely character-driven. It's an adult movie, an R-rated movie, pretty adult. Shockingly different from anything I've done in the English language. Normally, when I go to do a movie in America for the spectacle and younger audience, for Blade or whatever. This movie's tone is scary and it's the first time I get to do a movie more akin to what I do in the Spanish movies. The thing I do in those movies is recontextualization, take a movie and then move it into a completely different place. Like a Gothic and then move it into the Spanish Civil War ['The Devil's Backbone']. This is a Gothic romance, haunted house, in the north of England. [This] has moments that are very visceral, physical violence. You're in this sort of sedate romance and then there is this brutal moment where you're like, "Whoa!" And it has a lot of kinky moments. The only kinky moment I've ever shot is the leg f**k in 'The Devil's Backbone.' [laughs] This has a little more kinkiness than that."
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