By Kofi Outlaw

Supernatural auteur Guillermo Del Toro (HELLBOY, PANS LABYRINTH) may bring his unique blend of macabre fantasy and stark drama to a film that would be perfectly suited to the style, the seventh and final film in the Harry Potter saga, HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS.

MTV news recently sat down with the director on the set of the upcoming HELLBOY II: THE GOLDEN ARMY to discuss his the prospect of his landing the final Potter film. According to Del Toro, the opportunity would be Déjà vu all over again.

“They came to me once, for the third one,” [Del Toro] remembered of THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN. “I’ve read them all, and when I read the books before the movies were done… I saw them as deeper, more creaky, more corroded; then [the stories] were textured very differently when the first two movies came out. They were so bright and happy and full of light, that I wasn’t interested.”

However after seeing the increasingly dark tones of the last few Potter films, Del Toro’s interest in the project has slowly rekindled, leading him to make some not-so-subtle statements about his candidacy for helming DEATHLY HALLOWS.

“They seem to be getting eerie and darker… If they come back to me, I’ll think about it… I’m up to be the one who kill twenty guys…”

For those who have seen PANS LABRYINTH and read DEATHLY HALLOWS, it’s obvious that this would be a match made in heaven. Del Toro’s only stipulation would be that studio Warner Bros. give him creative room to breathe life into his own vision of HALLOWS, a demand that could be hard for any studio to meet, considering the vital importance ($$$$$$$) of the Potter franchise.

Do you have enough faith in Del Toro’s skills to chomp at the bit should ‘When Hellboy met Harry’ ever come out? Rant back and let us know. I personally cannot think of a better director to bring the boy wizard into manhood.