Has anyone read Guillermo Del Toro’s “The Strain” yet? The new novel from the genre filmmaker hit shelves weeks ago but I’ve yet to pick up a copy. It keeps slipping my mind. This Guy Adams interview with Del Toro in London’s Independent newspaper jogged the memory on that score earlier this morning.
It’s a fantastic discussion. Del Toro discusses everything from his “man cave,” a haven five blocks form his Los Angeles home that serves as a personal office and shrine to the many macabre artifacts that became just a little too much for his wife, to his well-reasoned thoughts on video games, which he says he plays “addictively,” deeming them “a living, breathing thing, narrating stories, and illustrating them in the most incredible way.”
There is also, of course, plenty of discussion concerning “The Strain,” which I didn’t realize was conceived for the small screen. Some bozo executive opted out of such a fascinating antidote to the recent swath of uninteresting, overly romanticized visions of the vampire world in pop culture, of course.