{"id":31076,"date":"2013-04-26T18:32:23","date_gmt":"2013-04-26T22:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/?p=31076"},"modified":"2013-04-26T18:28:58","modified_gmt":"2013-04-26T22:28:58","slug":"guillermo-del-toro-to-direct-monster-pilot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/guillermo-del-toro-to-direct-monster-pilot\/","title":{"rendered":"Guillermo del Toro to Direct Monster Pilot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Monster-Naoki-Urasawa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Monster-Naoki-Urasawa-450x236.jpg\" alt=\"Monster-Naoki-Urasawa\" width=\"450\" height=\"236\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-31077\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Monster-Naoki-Urasawa-450x236.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Monster-Naoki-Urasawa-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Monster-Naoki-Urasawa.jpg 570w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Deadline <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadline.com\/2013\/04\/guillermo-del-toro-is-hatching-a-monster-of-a-series-at-hbo\/\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a> that Doctor Who screenwriter Steven Thompson and Hellboy &#038; Pacific Rim director Guillermo del Toro are co-writing a pilot episode adaptation of Naoki Urasawa&#8217;s suspense manga Monster. Angry Films is producing the pilot for proposal to HBO as a possible continuing series.<\/p>\n<p>New Line Pictures acquired the domestic film rights to Urasawa&#8217;s Monster manga in 2005 but ultimately did not exploit the rights. del Toro then personally asked Naoki Urasawa for the option to produce a tentative live-action TV series adaptation. Madhouse produced a 74-episode anime TV series adaptation of the manga in 2004.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deadline reports that Doctor Who screenwriter Steven Thompson and Hellboy &#038; Pacific Rim director Guillermo del Toro are co-writing a pilot episode adaptation of Naoki Urasawa&#8217;s suspense manga Monster. Angry Films is producing the pilot for proposal to HBO as a possible continuing series. New Line Pictures acquired the domestic film rights to Urasawa&#8217;s Monster [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31078,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31076\/revisions\/31078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}