As reported by ShockTillYouDrop.com, Guillermo Del Toro has told Fangoria magazine that he has backed away from producing BORN, a psychological thriller scripted by Clive Barker and Paul Kaye.

“I was only involved in that very briefly,” says Guillermo. “I liked the idea, but in the course of it also being circled by [Jennifer] Connelly and [Paul] Bettany, my new production outfit Cha Cha Cha came to be formed. I knew I couldn’t juggle too many new projects together as a producer

Fangoria is reporting that Jennifer Connelly and Paul Bettany could be out of the Clive Barker/GDT stop-motion project BORN. The report states

…while in town to promote her new Focus Features drama RESERVATION ROAD, Connelly revealed to Fango that she and Bettany, at least, are out of the picture.

GDT has got another project on his plate, this time with horror master Clive Barker. According to ShockTillYouDrop.com, the project is called Born and it is a psychological thriller about “an animator, and family man, whose clay creations are acting out a nightmare that comes to life.” Del Toro will co-produce, and Barker will exec-produce. Barker co-wrote the script with writer/actor Paul Kaye.

Stop motion will play a big part in the film, and it is being directed by Daniel Simpson, who created a claymation short in 1995 called “H”. Simpson will be directing Paul Bettany (“The Da Vinci Code”) and Jennifer Connelly (“Hulk”, “Dark Water”) starting this August in the UK.