Guillermo del Toro, creator of Netflix’s Emmy-winning DreamWorks “Trollhunters”, is expanding his collaboration with the Internet TV network to the live-action. Netflix has ordered “Guillermo del Toro Presents 10 After Midnight”, the streaming service’s first original horror anthology series, reports Deadline.
“Guillermo del Toro Presents 10 After Midnight” is described as a collection of the Oscar-winning filmmaker’s personally curated stories, described as both equally sophisticated and horrific.
The Shape of Water writer-director del Toro created the series and will write and direct certain episodes. In addition, he will handpick a team of top horror writers and new filmmakers to bring his selection of stories to life. Del Toro is reteaming with his The Shape of Water producer J. Miles Dale. The two executive produce with Exile Entertainment’s Gary Ungar.
Del Toro’s The Shape of Water earned four Oscars this year, including Best Picture, Best Director for del Toro, Best Original Score and Best Production Design.
His previous films alternate between Spanish-language dark fantasy pieces, such as The Devil’s Backbone (2001), and Pan’s Labyrinth (2006), winner of three Academy Awards; and American studio movies, such as the vampire superhero action pic Blade II (2002), the supernatural adventures Hellboy (2004) and Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008); and the sci-fi monsters-versus-robots film Pacific Rim (2013).
