10 Unmade Guillermo Del Toro Projects That Look Awesome

5. Monster

Television is one of the few mediums that Guillermo del Toro hasn't dipped his toes in fully. He's an executive producer on The Strain, the FX adaptation of the vampire novels he writes with Chuck Hogan, but he's not all that involved. Maybe he's just waiting for the right project to come along; or maybe he's been burned because he had the ideal project, and then he lost it. As far back as the mid-2000s del Toro was attached to Monster, an adaptation of Naoki Urasaw's manga that he would have produced on HBO. The channel that routinely features the sort of brutal violence of Game Of Thrones was perfectly suited to del Toro and his source material, which involved a series of murders across pre-unification Germany. Monster also deals with issues of morality, if there's such thing as true evil, and political corruption - all of which are del Toro hallmarks. Seeing him work on his first long-form visual story would have been a treat, as would just getting weekly instalments of gorgeous del Toro direction. Except nothing has been heard since 2013, so it's possible Monster is dead in the water.