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Del Toro hopes to remake 'Monte Cristo'
Published Wednesday, Feb 25 2009, 16:14 GMT | By Simon Reynolds
Rex Features
Speaking to MTV News, the Hellboy director said that he hopes to one day helm a reinvention of Alexandre Dumas's classic novel.
"It's a Gothic-Western retelling of The Count Of Monte Cristo, and I co-wrote it with Kitt Carson and Matthew Robbins around 1993 to 1998," he said of the script, thought to be titled The Left Hand of Darkness.
"I wrote a lot of that during the kidnapping of my father, so [there's] a lot of rage," he added, referring to the 72 days his dad was held in Mexico. "I adore that screenplay."
The Count Of Monte Cristo centres on Edmund Dantes, a man who escapes prison after 13 years to exact revenge on a friend who betrayed him. The last big screen adaptation of the story was released in 2002 with James Caviezel and Guy Pearce in the lead roles.
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