Van Helsing, Del Toro style?

We’re not saying that he’s suddenly going to go and direct a new version of the Universal Pictures property, but former The Hobbit director Guillermo Del Toro does have his hand in other parts of the production, says Pajiba. Yes, that is correct, Universal is going back to their Van Helsing property, but it’s not entirely a remake to the 2004 Stephen Sommers film. This time, Del Toro wrote up a treatment that the studio will be using for this new version of the super awesome vampire killer from the Bram Stoker’s Dracula novel.

Del Toro is producing, but no word on whether or not he’ll direct his own written piece. Given the fact that he’s off the boat with The Hobbit films, he’s got plenty of time to do it. That is unless he’s got something else already on his plate that we don’t know about, but eventually we’ll hear some sort of confirmed plans for his next project.