Guillermo del Toro Says Orphanage Remake Will Be 'Different'

Guillermo del Toro has revealed that his remake of The Orphanage will be 'different'.

Del Toro was on producing duties back in 2007 for the Spanish horror movie - which saw Juan Antonio Bayona in the director's chair and Belen Rueda as a mother who loses her adopted son in their new home.

The movie was one of the finest horror films that year but Del Toro explains that it was not true to his original vision.

Speaking to Fangoria the director said: "Even when we produced the Spanish movie, I had intended to remake it because we had a very different screenplay that, because of money and time, got turned into the movie you saw - which is great, but there was this other structure for the original script that I wanted to try.

"So even before we shot the first film it was an economic decision, a pre-existing creative decision, to change it.

"We have Mark Pellington attached as director - I'm a big fan of his The Mothman Prophecies and his video work - and we are out to actors, so we're hoping to get things going soon."

We haven't seen del Toro in the director's chair since the release of Hellboy II: The Golden Army back in 2008 but he is set to work on Pacific Rim.