Del Toro will write and directed Trollhunters, based on an original children's book written by Del Toro himself. Not much is known about the story, but here's what Del Toro had to say about it...
“I wanted very much to develop a story that could be written for kids but dealt with a genre that was scary. It essentially combines fairy tales with modern times and is about how difficult it is to be kid. Normally, kids are idealized in animated films. But the growing pains, married with the notion that there is a world right next to us that is completely plagued by creatures of ancient lore, it’s thematically fitting with the rest of my stuff.”
Del Toro says that one of the reasons Dreamworks appealed to him was the boundaries they pushed with How to Train Your Dragon...
"They took risks with that movie with pathos and imagination and structure. It made me pay attention," he said.
Already hard at work on the screenplay, Del Toro hopes to have it completed before he begins shooting At the Mountains of Madness, based on H.P. Lovecraft's 1931 horror novel.
Del Toro and Dreamworks could be an unstoppable combination. Pixar should be looking over their shoulders.
