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Article: Welcome to the decade of del Toro
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- Charleston Daily Mail
- Article date:
- July 3, 2009
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HOLLYWOOD - Fantasy and horror fans, prepare yourselves for the
Decade of del Toro.
On the far side of the globe, in New Zealand, filmmaker Guillermo
del Toro is in his seventh month of labor on "The Hobbit," a $300-
million epic that will be told over two films to be released in 2011
and 2012. But you can also find the Guadalajara, Mexico, native now
on the shelf of your local bookstore with his debut novel, "The
Strain," which is the opening installment of a vampire trilogy he
has already fully mapped out.
That's only the beginning. The 44-year-old del Toro, who was
Oscar nominated for the dark fairy tale "Pan's Labyrinth" and has
shown his crowd-pleasing sensibilities with the "Hellboy" ...