Guillermo del Toro Next Directing ‘Crimson Peak’ Horror for Legendary

Most people are still waiting for their first glimpse at Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim which arrives next summer (we saw some killer footage at Comic-Con), but the director is already looking to his next project, and it’s actually one that’s been gestating for awhile. As far back as 2008, del Toro was slated to produce a film called Crimson Peak for Universal from a script he wrote with Mimic collaborator Matthew Robbins. Now he’s lined up the film as a directing job for Legendary Pictures, the same company behind Pacific Rim. I guess now that Legendary and Warner Bros. have a taste of del Toro’s magic, they want him to get comfortable. As for Universal, they can still co-finance at a later date, but it’s not longer just their project. Del Toro is supposed to do a rewrite of the script with Lucinda Coxon (Wild Target) and is looking to …