New Line has tapped Mexican director Guillermo Del Toro to helm futuristic fantasy-thriller "Killing on Carnival Row," which will be produced by Arnold and Anne Kopelson through their Kopelson Entertainment banner.
Del Toro is in final negotiations on the project.
New Line acquired "Killing on Carnival Row," a spec script by tyro scribe Travis Beacham, last fall in a preemptive bid. Story's set in a Victorian city inhabited by humans, faeries, elves and vampires, with a detective pursuing a serial killer.
New Line prexy Toby Emmerich and execs Keith Goldberg and Michael Disco are overseeing the pic.
Picturehouse, the HBO-New Line joint venture, recently paid close to $6 million for North American rights to Del Toro's dark fairy tale "Pan's Labyrinth."
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