Fun trivia: director Guillermo del Toro's two most recent films were a 2022 adaptation of Carlo Collodi's "Pinocchio" and a 2025 adaptation of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein." As it so happens, "Pinocchio" and "Frankenstein" were the two books most deeply beloved by the sentient android Johnny Five in the sci-fi comedy "Short Circuit 2," and the only two he read while being held in captivity. One can only posit whether or not del Toro is a "Short Circuit 2" fan, or if this is just a coincidence.

For every film del Toro makes, there is at least one that has stalled in production. He was once slated to direct a superhero movie called "Justice League Dark," and still hasn't able to produce his H.P. Lovecraft project "At the Mountains of Madness." He was once enthused about making a film base

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