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.
Guillermo del Toro
Writer
for Writer in Jurassic World II: Extinction
Suggested by simsiboyy
Three years after Jurassic Worlds end the dinosaurs are free roaming across Isla Nublar. But their lives are in danger as the islands volcano Mount Sibo threatens to break out and wipe out all life on Isla Nublar. An ethical discussion has split the community into idealistic advocates of dinosaurs and those who are not impressed by the animals fate at all. Elena Morales‘ empathy for the creatures she cared for so long makes her stand for the dinosaurs rights. The fact that Leah and William have spent many years along the dinosaurs makes them feel that the only right thing to do is to save them from Isla Nublar too. But overwhelmed of their feelings towards the dinosaurs Elena and Henry team up with Leah and William to convince InGen to send a team to the island. In the meantime the lead of Masrani/InGen has ordered Diego Cruz to guide a second team to collect several dinosaurs from Isla Nublar to get them to the mainland where they can be kept for further operations. They want to hide the dinosaurs in different locations (Lockwoods Mansion, InGen‘s mainland HQs, San Diego and at their European base). As InGen has invested too much money on research and cloning they can‘t leave all that behind. However this second team confused Isla Nublar with Isla Sorna and therefore they land on Site B, which is still inhabited by dinosaurs – wild and untamed for more than two decades. But as they realise their misunderstanding the fight for survival has already begun.
