Guillermo del Toro
And for his next trick, Mexican maestro Guillermo del Toro returns from the Oscar-haulling success of 2017’s The Shape of Water with a pristine Art Deco reimagining of William Lindsay Gresham’s 1946 novel, ‘Nightmare Alley’, which was also filmed in 1947 starring Tyrone Power. This time, Bradley Cooper makes the journey from go-getting carnie to society pysychic and back again as the tragic noir monster, Stanton ‘Stan’ Carlisle in what must be one of del Toro’s most personal films.
Del Toro: I certainly tried. Look, the first thing I present any time is , and I get a really quick ‘No.’ In fact , when we tackled it, Kim Morgan and I, we did so as a writing exercise. We didn’t think the movie would get made because we knew we wanted that ending, and we knew it would be a big movie, big enough to have to
