Geoff Boucher has a great blog at the LA Times called Hero Complex, focusing on “genre films, graphic novels, and science fiction.” Today he provides a short version of an interview he had with filmmaker Guillermo del Toro. We already noted here how busy del Toro looks to be through — then — 2017. But it actually appears he’s booked through the end of the decade. To wit:

Fantasy and horror fans, prepare yourself for the Decade of Del Toro.

On the far side of the globe, in New Zealand, filmmaker Guillermo del Toro is now in his seventh month of labor on “The Hobbit,” a $300-million epic that will be told over two films in 2011 and 2012. But you can also find the Guadalajara native on the shelf of your local bookstore with his just-released debut novel, “The Strain,” the opening installment of a vampire trilogy he already has mapped out.

That’s only the beginning. The 44-year-old Del Toro, who was nominated for an Oscar for the dark fairy tale “Pan’s Labyrinth” and showed his crowd-pleasing sensibilities with the “Hellboy” films, also has plans to reanimate some musty and monstrous literary classics. He plans to make a “Frankenstein” film as well as an adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s epic “At the Mountains of Madness,” a project he breathlessly refers to as “my obsession.”

He would seem to be a full plate but, interviewed by phone recently, he chuckled and added another project to the pile: “I think after ‘The Hobbit,’ my next project may actually turn out to be ‘Drood,’ ” he said, referring to the 2008 novel by Dan Simmons that presents Charles Dickens at the center of an occult mystery in 1860s Victorian London. Those three post-“Hobbit” projects are all for Universal, which also has hopes that Del Toro will continue his library-card approach to filmmaking by taking on “Slaughterhouse-Five,” Kurt Vonnegut’s surreal antiwar tale of time travel.

If you’re keeping track, that would have Del Toro tied up well past 2015 and perhaps into 2017. He also is flirting with several other projects (“Pinocchio,” “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” and a third “Hellboy” film have been mentioned at various times) but perhaps only as a producer, as with the acclaimed 2007 Spanish ghost story, “The Orphanage.” He also wants to write more novels and to join in the increasingly popular quest to discover the land of interactive 21st century storytelling, which lies somewhere between Hollywood films and video games as we know them today.

If you missed it, here is a post with a video interview in which del Toro talks about The Strain Trilogy.

Okay, so looking at all those projects, which one interests you most? I’d have to go with “The Hobbit” although I’m such a Vonnegut fan “Slaughterhouse-Five” is right up there.