Here is a great video interview with Guillermo where he talks about his influences for creating THE STRAIN trilogy’s vampire mythology. He gives recommended reading, and also the video shows some great sketches from his famous notebook.

  

Guillermo gets some nice laughs, talks about his lazy cat – then drops a bomb, saying he is working on a TV project with David Eicke, the Executive producer and writer for the great BATTLESTAR GALACTICA TV series!

  

THE FALL releases Sept 16th in the UK, Sept 21st in the US.

Here is GDT’s schedule:

Tuesday, September 21

Guillermo Del Toro will be promoting The Fall
BLOOMBERG STUDIOS/Charlie Rose

Guillermo Del Toro will be promoting The Fall
THE NEW YORK TIMES/Times Talks
21st FL 620 Eighth AVE New York, NY 10036

Wednesday, September 22

Guillermo Del Toro will be promoting The Fall
COMEDY CENTRAL/The Colbert Report

Guillermo Del Toro will be promoting The Fall
BORDERS
10 Columbus Circle New York, NY 10019

Monday, September 27

Guillermo Del Toro will be promoting The Fall
MTV MOVIE BLOG

Guillermo Del Toro will be promoting The Fall
FANGORIA

Guillermo Del Toro will be promoting The Fall
SIRIUS XM RADIO/The Ron & Fez Show

Thursday, September 23

Guillermo Del Toro will be promoting The Fall
BRATTLE THEATER/Harvard Bookstore
40 Brattle St Harvard Square Cambridge, MA 02138

Guillermo Del Toro will be promoting The Fall
WBUR-AM/On Point

Friday, September 24

Guillermo Del Toro will be promoting The Fall
DARK DELICACIES
3512 W Magnolia Blvd Burbank, CA 91505

Monday, September 27

Guillermo Del Toro will be promoting The Fall
CBS-TV/Late, Late Show with Craig Ferguson

Guillermo Del Toro will be promoting The Fall
KCET-TV/Tavis Smiley Show

Tuesday, September 28

Guillermo Del Toro will be promoting The Fall
BOOKSMITH/At the Kabuki Theater
1881 Post ST San Francisco, CA 94115

Wednesday, September 29

Guillermo Del Toro will be promoting The Fall
POWELL’S BOOKSTORE
Baghdad Theater 3702 SE Hawthorne Blvd Portland, OR 97214

Thursday, September 30

Guillermo Del Toro will be promoting The Fall
AMAZON

Guillermo Del Toro will be promoting The Fall
KIM RICKETTS BOOKS
325 Fifth Ave N Seattle Center Seattle, WA 98109

Saturday, October 02

Guillermo Del Toro will be promoting The Fall
BARNES & NOBLE
STE K 30 189 Grove Drive Los Angeles, CA 90036

Friday, October 08

Guillermo Del Toro will be promoting The Fall
CHELTENHAM LITERARY FESTIVAL

Dates and times are subject to change. Please contact venue to confirm details

  

Guillermo del Toro: Vampire Vision

Tuesday, September 21
7:00 PM – 8:30 PM

The TimesCenter
242 West 41st St. NYC

Guillermo del Toro, the author-director-writer-producer known for such films as

In THE FALL, the second book in Guillermo and Chuck Hogan

THE FALL, the second book in the Guillermo Del Toro / Chuck Hogan STRAIN trilogy will be released September 21, 2010.

The book will follow the continuing saga of Dr. Ephraim Goodweather’s adventure to save humanity from a vampire virus.

You can now preorder the book through the DelToroFilms Amazon store. Click here to PREORDER NOW.

You can read about DTF’s coverage of The Strain trilogy here.

GDT is a voracious reader. Technically, he says he has about “10,000 favorites”, but with a little research, I’ve found a few books that he personally recommends:

The King in the Golden Mask, by Marcel Schwob
In a March 2002 interview with IGN.com, GDT mentioned this French writer’s collection of short stories as his favorite book.
Source: IGN.com

Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens
GDT: “As a kid, you have this notion that you are out of place and out of time. I think the character of Pip relates very intensely to Dickens and to me, too. The character of Mrs. Havisham is as close as Dickens gets to those Christopher Lee gothic horror films.”
Source: New York Post

Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley
GDT: “If I had to choose one movie that I’d love to see survive a burning, I’d run into the woods with the can containing ‘Frankenstein.’ The book is incredibly important, too. When I read it as an adolescent, I identified with the Creature. As I became a lapsed Catholic, I identified with the Creature’s plea, ‘Why am I here, if I didn’t choose to be born?’
Source: New York Post

Pet Sematary, by Stephen King
GDT: “I think Stephen King can play the boogey man better than anyone else. Seldom has any writer tapped into the primal fear of death, absolute darkness and lack of soul to the point that it provokes almost spiritual horror.”
Source: New York Post

Ficciones, by Jorge Luis Borges
GDT: “Incredibly poetic fantasy, philosophical ruminations in the form of literature . . . In many of Borges’ short stories, he asks, Can an imaginary world be as real as the actual one? This book has been a seminal one for me.”
Source: New York Post

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, by Carson McCuller
Charlie Rose asked Guillermo in July of 2009 if he would ever film a love story. Guillermo replied, “I would love to do Carson McCuller’s The Heart is a Lonely Hunter…I loved the old movie with Alan Arkin and Sandra Locke, but I think the book is so much more full of possibilities.”

Frankenstein, Dracula, Mr. Hyde, even an actual historic figure like Jack The Ripper, show that many of the most iconic characters in the horror genre are intimately associated with the 19th century. In his newest novel author Dan Simmons attempts to add yet another name to that sinister list – that of the mysterious gentleman known only as Drood – through the chronicles of another iconic figure of the 1800

You can now view a new trailer online for THE STRAIN entitled “Jail.” The trailer is actually directed and produced by Francisco Ruiz Velasco, who worked as a concept artist on HELLBOY II. The video is NSFW for strong language (unless you have headphones).