Guillermo del Toro

Guillermo Del Toro is a realizer, producer and Mexican scenario writer, born the October 9th 1964 with Guadalajara (Mexico).

Biography

Studying of special effects with Dick Smith (expert in make-up with work in particular on the Exorcist ), Guillermo del Toro is devoted during ten years, via its Necropia company, with the realization of effects for Mexican productions like on the local series Hora marquada , of which it signs three episodes in addition.

Author of articles for publications such as Sight and Sound or The Village Voice and of a book on Alfred Hitchcock, Guillermo del Toro carries out its first film in 1993. Noticed with the Cannes festival, Cronos , interesting diversion of the myth of the Vampire, gain nine Ariels - the Mexican equivalent of Césars- as well as many international prizes, and are worth with its author a flattering reputation.

The director confirms four years later while crossing the Californian border to carry out Mimic with Mira Sorvino. As for Cronos , Guillermo del Toro also signs the scenario of it. Greedy of Christian symbols within his framework, the Mexican scenario writer imposes his singular universe with the Spine of the Devil turned in 2001 to Spain and product by Pedro Almodóvar, then with the explosive Blade II , always taken along by the hunter of vampires Wesley Snipes.

Propelled on the front of the scene by these two feature-length films, the scenario writer then sees himself proposing many projects, of which Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban (for which he will propose in replacement Alfonso Cuarón) and obviously Blade: Trinity . He will prefer however to adapt to the screen a comic-book which is due to him in heart: Hellboy , according to the work of Mike Mignola, for which he manages to impose one of his actors fetishes, Ron Perlman, in the title role, that of a demon working for the Good.

In addition to Hellboy 2: The Golden delicious Army , Guillermo del Toro develops since many projects, of which hallucinated Mountains , according to Lovecraft, the film for children The Wind in the Willows , as well as the tale of fantasy and horrific the Labyrinth of Side , than he announces like an appendix with the Spine of the Devil .

Catalog of films

like realizer

as producer

as scenario writer

External bond

  • Guillermo del Toro on Internet Movie Database
  • On '' El Laberinto del Fauno '' (in Spanish)

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