I’ve never known an online film news story be culled for space, but that’s what happened over at Variety yesterday when Mike Fleming was forced to leave out important quotes from his Guillermo del Toro story because he ran out of space.

Aren’t they aware of a great invention known as a mouse and a scroll button?

Anyway, Fleming emailed Harry Knowles at AICN with what del Toro said about his hopeful adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut’s epic novel Slaughterhouse-Five that had to be left out of his news story…

“When I read the book and had the fortune of seeing the movie not far apart, I enjoyed both. But I thought that the way Vonnegut plays with and juxtaposes time was perhaps too edgy to be tackled on film at that time. The key for me was how in the book Billy Pilgrim becomes `unstuck’ in time. This allows for storytelling that can be eminently pure cinema, not so linear, where you can jump back from one time period to another, and present a reality where these juxtaposed time periods meld together. It can be less traditional and more adventurous, and presented a bit more boldly.”

Of course, don’t expect to see his adaptation for several years as he is locked into Middle-Earth for the next four years at least.