Fan Casting Mephisto's Bridge (2000)

n the mid-1990's, Universal Pictures hired then-newcomer Guillermo del Toro to write and direct Mephisto's Bridge, a feature film adaptation of Christopher Fowler's novel Spanky, the Faustian tale chronicling the downward spiral of a greedy yuppie who sells his soul to an imaginary friend-turned-devil in return for success and material wealth. Ultimately though, it would become one of the first of many Del Toro projects that never came to be. Follow me and ponder the question, "What if...?"