Guillermo Del Toro Directing ‘Beauty And The Beast’ With Emma Watson? Nice.

Guillermo Del Toro. Emma Watson. Beauty and the Beast?

Slashfilm:

It’s a tale as old as time, song as old as rhyme. Guillermo Del Toro is attached to another project. This time he’s upgraded from producer to director of a new version of the classic fairy tale Beauty and the Beast for Warner Bros., which will be written by Andrew Davies (Bridget Jones’ Diary). Read more after the jump.

Variety broke the news of Del Toro’s decision to board the project as a director as well as the new screenwriter. Last summer, he on this film strickly as a producer and there’s no indication as to why he changed his mind.

Del Toro is currently still in production on another project for Warner Bros., Pacific Rim, which is scheduled for release May 2013. That means, if Del Toro decides on this as his next film, he likely wouldn’t be able to direct it until early next year. And even then, he still has a plethora of other options to consider first.

In the mean time, he’ll reportedly write a treatment of the story off which Davies will complete the full screenplay.

Greedily, I wish he would just stick to making fucking Slaughterhouse-Five. I can see the appeal of this, though.