Around 1995, before directing Mimic, del Toro approached George R. R. Martin with intent to make a film adaptation of his famous novelette Sandkings,[REF] but the project was quickly scrapped after the novel was adapted into the first episode of the The Outer Limits.
In the late 1990s, del Toro expressed interest in directing a live-action film adaptation of Katsuhiro Otomo's Domu: A Child's Dream.