Age: 61
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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.
On an alternate Earth, Humans and fantastical creatures/beings are struggling to co-exist with each other in modern-day society. In the midst of this, young antisocial human outcast Chance Bowman arrives in San Francisco to attend college, though only attending human schools in the past and being one of the few only humans at the college, Chance feels alienated though he's trying to make it through, his first day has gone horribly, with complaints of his poor punctuality and him being human causing him to be a victim of abuse, so he decides to leave, but before he does, a destructive supernatural anomaly emerges and essentially ends the world. Until Chance suddenly finds himself waking up back at the beginning of his first day at college, confused as to what is going on, Chance soon learns that he somehow now can control time including reliving certain periods of time over and over, while trying to figure out how to control his ability and how he acquired it, Chance decides to try to use his abilities to piece together the puzzle behind who/what was behind the phenomenon and prevent it by reliving the same day over and over again. Looking both inside and outside of the college for answers and making a lot of friends and enemies along the way. MPA Rating: Rated R for strong violent content, bloody images, language, and some sexuality/graphic nudity.
