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Guillermo del Toro Gómez (Spanish: [ɡiˈʝeɾmo ðelˈtoɾo]; born 9 October 1964) is a Mexican filmmaker, author, and artist. His work has been characterized by a strong connection to fairy tales, gothicism, and horror, often blending the genres to infuse visual or poetic beauty into the grotesque. He has had a lifelong fascination with monsters, which he considers symbols of great power. He is known for pioneering dark fantasy in the film industry and using insectile and religious imagery, his themes of Catholicism, and celebrating imperfection, underworld motifs, practical special effects, and dominant amber lighting. Throughout his career, del Toro has shifted between Spanish-language films—such as Cronos (1993), The Devil's Backbone (2001), and Pan's Labyrinth (2006)—and English-language films, including Mimic (1997), Blade II (2002), Hellboy (2004) and its sequel Hellboy II: The Golden Army(2008), Pacific Rim (2013), Crimson Peak (2015), The Shape of Water (2017), Nightmare Alley (2021), and Pinocchio (2022). As a producer or writer, he worked on the films The Orphanage (2007), Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (2010), The Hobbit film series (2012–2014), Mama (2013), The Book of Life (2014), Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018), Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019), and The Witches (2020). In 2022, he created the Netflix anthology horror series Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities, featuring a collection of classical horror stories. With Chuck Hogan, he co-authored The Strain trilogy of novels (2009–2011), which was later adapted into a comic book series (2011–15) and a live-action television series (2014–17). With DreamWorks Animation and Netflix, he created the animated franchise Tales of Arcadia, which includes the series Trollhunters (2016–18), 3Below (2018–19), and Wizards (2020) and the sequel film Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans (2021). Del Toro is close friends with fellow Mexican filmmakers Alfonso Cuarón and Alejandro G. Iñárritu, collectively known as "The Three Amigos of Mexican Cinema". He has received several awards, including three Academy Awards, three BAFTA Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, a Daytime Emmy Award, and a Golden Lion. He was included in Time magazine's list of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2018, and he received a motion picture star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2019.
Guillermo del Toro
Director
for Director in Chance: The Death Cycle
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Months following his time-loop episode in San Francisco, reliving his first day of college over 80,000 times in order to save the surface world from a vengeful sea witch and discovering he possesses time-manipulating magical powers resulting from a surprising half-human half-tempoer (A rare and supposedly extinct race of magic users who specify in controlling time itself) heritage. Chance Bowman returns to his hometown of Denver, Colorado for the winter holidays with only one thought persistently haunting his mind: What happened to his mother, he deduces that since his father is human then his mother must've secretly been a pure-blooded tempoer and her powers were genetically passed down to him, so now Chance wants to find her so he can better understand and master his abilities, but his mother has been missing presumed dead since he was very young and no-one and nothing seems to help him. Eventually, his ongoing search soon lands him in yet another time loop, but this time it's not his doing, as he now finds himself facing off against a sinister and powerful secret cult of dark elves, who have been mortal enemies of tempoers for ages, and they managed to find a way to harness the powers of tempoers in order to accomplish their goal of completely annihilating all life in existence, So of course it's now up to Chance to take back control of time and stop the dark elves as well as rescue his mother from them.
