Netflix secures rights to Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan’s horror series ‘The Boy in the Iron Box’
Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro had collaborated with American novelist, screenwriter and producer Chuck Hogan last year. They released a six-part serialised horror novella exclusively on Amazon for their Original Stories initiative. Netflix has now bought the rights to those stories for a potential adaptation.
This is not the first time the writer duo has collaborated. The Strain trilogy for FX is one of their co-written stories that has been adapted into a series as well. Artists Guy Davis and Fabrizio De Tommaso helped with the illustrations for The Boy in the Iron Box. Actors Ralph Ineson and Nina Yndis lent their voices for the audiobook versions.
Guillermo has previously said that Netflix is his home. With the newly released book series, which he refers to as ‘little stories’, he might be at home with Netflix for a while. The six short stories, Falling Down, The Pit and the Box, The Hunted, Risen, Siege and Encounter, may become a film or series at Netflix. Del Toro’s Necropia Entertainment is set to produce the adaptation.
Del Toro has worked on many such projects previously, like the animated series Tales of Arcadia, for which he collaborated with DreamWorks Animation. Moreover, he had earlier featured in a Netflix docu-series called Five Came Back. His stop-motion animated film Pinocchio even won an Oscar for Netflix.
His upcoming project, Frankenstein, has garnered a lot of attention, especially with its star cast. A lifelong dream for Guillermo has been to adapt Mary Shelley’s classic novel to the big screen. November 2025 will see this film come to life with Oscar Isaac, Jacob Elordi, Mia Goth, Christoph Waltz and many others headlining it.
In 2023, he had even announced that he would be working on an animated feature, which will be an adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant. Lastly, he has also shared that there are talks of a film adaptation of Vampire Tapestry.
To add to his long list of accomplished projects, during a panel at Netflix’s Egyptian Theatre in Los Angeles, del Toro premiered episodes of Love, Death and Robots’ upcoming season. He even wished for the renewal of the series for a fifth volume in which he’d direct an episode.