The Three Amigos, Left to Right. Directors Alfonso Cuaron, Guillermo del Toro and Alejandro G. Iñarritu.
This past week two Academy Award Winning Mexican filmmakers, Alejandro G. Iñarritu and Guillermo del Toro were on the headlines of the main Hollywood publications starting with being part of the filmmakers who bought the Village, a legendary movie theatre in Westwood. Although, oddly enough, instead of Iñarritu most of them confused him with the third “Amigo” Alfonso Cuaron, who wasn’t in the picture.
Still, Iñarritu made his own headlines in the mid week when Warner Bros. confirmed the Academy Award Winner Director of “Birdman” and “The Revenant” was in talks with Tom Cruises to star in the next project from the star with the studio after finishing his collaboration with Paramount and its declining “Mission-Impossible” sequels. Some said before this news that Cruise was looking with his Warner Bros. to go back to work with film auteurs like Kubrick or Paul Thomas Anderson who gave him some of his best acting work back in the late 90s.
Alejandro González Iñárritu with Tom Cruise at the Baftas in 2016.
Rumor has it that the meeting between Iñarritu and Cruise went to well that Tom immediately sign on board to the mysterious new project from Alejandro. If that’s the case, who can be better than Iñarritu who gave Michael Keaton the histrionic respect he was longing with “Birdman” (which gave him also his first Academy Award nod for Best Actor in 2014) and Leonardo DiCaprio finally his own Best Actor Oscar for “The Revenant” in 2015 which was decades in the making.
As for Del Toro, after he started the month of February sharing on his X account, pictures of his scouting in frozen Canada for his own adaptation of Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” this past week who made waves in social media was Australian star Jacob Elordi (BAFTA nominee for his work in “ Saltburn”) when he posted an image in Make-Up of the story’s monster. Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein” is currently in production in Toronto and Ontario, Canada and also stars Mia Goth (“Pearl”; “X”), Oscar Isaac as Doctor Frankenstein and two time Academy Award Winner Christoph Waltz as Dr. Pretoria’s, who wishes to continue the experiments started by Doctor Frankenstein 40 years after the story’s main events. Break a leg amigos!
Alfredo Galindo is un Productor, Director y Guinista de cine. Columnista del periódico Vanguardia desde 1995, escribe sobre música, cine y televisión. Combina la pasión de escribir con la creación cinematográfica.