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.
Trevor Wright is a young and seemingly ordinary janitor who secretly moonlights as a badass monster hunter working for a top-secret organization, "The Maitenance Division", dedicated to protecting the human world from inhuman threats. The hunters are comprised of various other janitors, electricians, plumbers, mechanics, etc. Armed with proficient skills at hand-to-hand combat and various weapons and gadgets, Trevor goes through his life with everyone believing he's a nobody who cleans up after people, despite working in the shadows to fight against incomprehensible beasts and creatures that prey upon humanity. Eventually, Trevor is then invited to a 10-year high school reunion, figuring he needs a break from his monster-hunting duties, he reluctantly decides to attend, haunted by the memories of being a shy, bullied outcast during his teen years, and many of his old classmates, including both his old crush and his former bully, have gone on to live successful lives, making him feel inadequate about his cover as a normal janitor. Until his work life begins to invade his personal life, during the reunion, a vengeful cult of monster-worshippers, The Obsedien Choir, whom Trevor had a brief previous encounter with, crashes the party, propelling him into action and revealing his true self to all his former classmates. As the dark forces are closing in, Trevor gears up and calls for backup from others in the Division, including his retired mentor, to combat the Obsedien Choir.
