Guillermo Del Toro cancels UK visit

By John Freeman on 5 October 2010

Forbidden Planet has announced director Guillermo Del Toro has had to cancel his visit to the UK and his appearance at their London store will not go ahead on 6th October.

“Both Forbidden Planet and Harper Collins are doing everything possible to ensure that pre-orders made through the Forbidden Planet website for signed stock will be fulfilled,” the stores says in a statement.

“We apologise for the inconvenience and disappointment this may cause. We will update our web page with more information as we have it.”

The director’s visit might be down to his busy schedule: it was recently reported that he’s to write and direct Trollhunters, an animated horror movie aimed at children; is working on a new Lovecraftian horror game for THQ (perhaps based on At the Mountains of Madness, which he is directing for Universal); and of course, his re-imagining of the Mary Shelley classic Frankenstein, due out in 2012.

• Web Link: http://forbiddenplanet.com/events/2010/10/06/guillermo-del-toro-signing-fall/

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John is the founder of downthetubes, launched in 1998. He is a comics and magazine editor, writer, and Press Officer for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He also runs Crucible Comic Press.

Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine and Overkill for Marvel UK, Babylon 5 Magazine, Star Trek Magazine, and its successor, Star Trek Explorer, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics; and has edited several comic collections and graphic novels, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”, and Hancock: The Lad Himself, by Stephen Walsh and Keith Page.

He’s the writer of comics such as Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs”, with Dave Hailwood.