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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.
The Blood Wolf is a 2026 American action film directed by David Twohy and produced by Guillermo del Toro from story by him and Twohy. It is a back-to-back sequel to The Phantom's Edge and the fourth installment in the Chronicles of Mister Wolf film series, Nad initially, the conclusion. The film stars Alexander Skarsgård, Emma Stone, John Krasinski, Tyrese Gibson, Sigourney Weaver, Carrie-Anne Moss, Tom Hiddleston, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, and Laurence Fishburne reprising their roles, alongside Morena Baccarin, James McAvoy, and Jeff Goldblum. In the film, Marcus Black (Skarsgård) has settled down with his his wife, Dakota (Stone) and their daughter, but his archenemy, Virginia Walker (Weaver) continues roaming the forest to hunt him. He teams up with Gabriel O'Hara, who survived being killed by Walker, as well as Larry Kress (Fishburne) and Mark Quinn (Gibson) to defeat her. The film premiered in Los Angeles on December 18th, 2026; releasing 4 days later, it grossed $2.191 billion worldwide and became the highest-grossing release of the series. Upon release, The Blood Wolf was met with universal acclaim, with praise for its visual style, musical score, direction, action sequences, the darker tone, story, performances (particularly Skarsgård, Stone, Krasinski, and Weaver), themes, and emotional weight. A direct sequel entitled The Howling Death: New Blood will revive the series in 2029.
