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Guillermo del Toro To Produce The Animated Film 'Day of the Dead'

What do you get when you combine the talents of the Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Guillermo del Toro along with the award-winning creative studio Reel FX?

A groundbreaking, CG-animated film with a "Romeo and Juliet" style love story set against a Mexican "Day of the Dead" backdrop.



According to Variety, del Toro will produce the CG-animated film with the working title "Day of the Dead" along with the studio Reel FX which is based in Dallas, Texas and Santa Monica, California.

Del Toro will also present the film, directed by Jorge R. Gutierrez from a script he wrote with Gutierrez and Doug Langdale. Reel FX will produce alongde Aaron Berger and Carina Schulze of Chatrone.

Scheduled to be released in fall of 2014, It's the first time nce 1993's "Cronos" that del Toro has collaborated on a feature project set in Mexico.Reel FX's Brad Booker brought "Day of the Dead" to the studio and will oversee the project.

"This is a colorful, vibrant, vital fable that utilizes the animation medium in an incredible way," del Toro said.

Source:Variety