While there were several projects attached to Guillermo Del Toro this year that got scrapped, the director still has his hands in a whole lot more as common to his nature.

In a recent interview with the press at the Television Critics Association panel last week, Del Toro spoke about his upcoming film 'Haunted Mansion' which is set to star Ryan Gosling.

"All you can do is develop the screenplays, send them in, get a reaction, get the budget, agree or disagree on budget and so forth," the director said. "Every project goes through the same thing. People say why do you have five [movies in development]? I have five because one happens. Whenever I have dedicated myself to a single project for any length of time, I end up having three, four years where I don't shoot. It's happened twice already, so I live in a life of realities. I have to have these projects alive to hope and pray that one of them happen."

Another movie Del Toro spoke on is the 'Hellboy 3' project which has recently been pushed heavy by the title actor Ron Perlman.

The director has recently stated that he doesn't believe the studio would back the film, and in this interview he explains why:

"Same status. I think that the fans want it, we want it, but studios... it's a big movie, bigger than the first one and the second one. The numbers on the Hellboys made a lot of sense because of video. Hellboy II exists not because a studio head said. 'I'm a big fan.' The first one made money, made much more money on the Blu-ray and DVD than it did theatrically. It made money. Now that market is done."