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Pan's Labyrinth
Pan's Labyrinth director Guillermo del Toro told SCI FI Wire that he hand-carried a copy of his movie to the Maine home of horrormeister Stephen King to screen it personally for the author—who returned the favor by naming it his favorite film of 2006. "Even now, when you say it, I get chills," del Toro said in an interview this week in Beverly Hills, Calif. "I do. I mean, ... Stephen King has been a huge influence."
In the Dec. 22 issue of Entertainment Weekly, King said that he was "seduced by [Pan's Labyrinth's] beauty and emotional ferocity. ... I think this extraordinary R-rated fairy tale for adults is the best fantasy film since The Wizard of Oz."
Behind King's review is a story of how del Toro, "like a Muslim going to Mecca," hand-toted two enormous film cans containing a print of his movie through three airports from Los Angeles to King's hometown in Maine. "And then I arrived to a theater that, technically, was very hard for me to go, 'Oh, this is the optimal screening,'" del Toro said. "And yet, to this day, it remains the best screening of my entire life. Because I was sitting next to Stephen King, and he was squirming during the impalement sequence, and I was like, 'It doesn't get better than this.'"
Del Toro added: "And then we went and had Indian food, and there's the receipt." He pointed to the restaurant receipt, pasted into the leather-bound sketchbook he carries with him at all times. "I had lamb curry. It was 08-05-'06. ... I feel like Forrest Gump." Pan's Labyrinth opens Dec. 29.
[The FX people who did Pan's Labyrinth will be doing The Mist, by the way]
In the Dec. 22 issue of Entertainment Weekly, King said that he was "seduced by [Pan's Labyrinth's] beauty and emotional ferocity. ... I think this extraordinary R-rated fairy tale for adults is the best fantasy film since The Wizard of Oz."
Behind King's review is a story of how del Toro, "like a Muslim going to Mecca," hand-toted two enormous film cans containing a print of his movie through three airports from Los Angeles to King's hometown in Maine. "And then I arrived to a theater that, technically, was very hard for me to go, 'Oh, this is the optimal screening,'" del Toro said. "And yet, to this day, it remains the best screening of my entire life. Because I was sitting next to Stephen King, and he was squirming during the impalement sequence, and I was like, 'It doesn't get better than this.'"
Del Toro added: "And then we went and had Indian food, and there's the receipt." He pointed to the restaurant receipt, pasted into the leather-bound sketchbook he carries with him at all times. "I had lamb curry. It was 08-05-'06. ... I feel like Forrest Gump." Pan's Labyrinth opens Dec. 29.
[The FX people who did Pan's Labyrinth will be doing The Mist, by the way]