^{Off-camera: a giant sandwich.}

Keep an eye out for Guillermo del Toro at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con because he has big news. He shouldn’t be that difficult to find. Just look for the heavyset guy with glasses and an unshaven neck. Ask a Convention Center employee if you have trouble. Guillermo’s official site has this message from the director:

Van Helsing (writing and producing) is still in talks and not quite certain. Even then, I would like to share my plans only at COMICON. I am taking it slowly and marking very, very carefully the calendar of projects that I will be involved as producer, writer, etc I will not announce the project I intend to direct until then . I am very happy to say that all the projects and partnerships being considered are both quite surprising and, I hope, powerful. Much as I want, I cannot say much more at this time but I anxiously await to share these with you. I will be shopping on the floor in San Diego for several days. See you there!!

So what could this "quite surprising" news be? Is he going to play Magneto? I bet he’d make a great Magneto. He’s already quite adept at bending metal chairs.