Guillermo del Toro

Guillermo del Toro développe une série pour HBO basée sur le livre de Corinne May Botz. Del Toro: The Future Of Storytelling Is Transmedia. He may have multiple movies in various states of pre-production, but Pan’s Labyrinth‘s Guillermo del Toro isn’t just thinking in terms of cinema.

Talking to Collider at the Toronto International Film Festival this weekend, he revealed that he’s also developing television shows and working with Dreamworks Animation on as-yet-unannounced projects. Why? Because, he says, storytellers of the future will need to be able to do all of this: I’m learning, because I want to learn animation, I want to learn video games, I want to learn every… I want to learn book publishing and I want to learn TV. Why? Guillermo Del Toro: le conte à rebours de l’Histoire [Dossier] Le barbu mexicain le plus doué de l’industrie cinématographique nous prouve encore une fois ses grands talents de conteur : « Hellboy II : les légions d’or maudites » fait la part belle à la fable et au fantasme, à travers une réalité parsemée de créatures merveilleuses et de peuples improbables.

Ce qui anime cette suite, comme toute l’œuvre de Del Toro, outre le goût du cinéaste pour les bestiaires fantaisistes, c’est la manière presque naturelle de gonfler notre monde bien connu, avec ses défauts et ses contradictions, d’une dimension fantastique. Tous ses films convergent vers cette mutation d’une réalité qui perd progressivement ses contours au profit d’un ailleurs pas nécessairement meilleur, mais plus attirant, et vers lequel convergent surtout – mais pas seulement – les enfants.

La beauté de la fable « Hellboy II » débute, c’est une habitude, par un prologue qui se déroule des années auparavant. Passez la porte de la fiction Un décor dans lequel se meut l’enfant. Guillermo Del Toro : ''le jeu vidéo est le futur du genre narratif'' Dans un podcast posté sur le site d'Irrational Games, Guillermo Del Toro et Ken Levine discutent de leur travail respectif, du cinéma et de l'avenir du jeu vidéo que le cinéaste considère comme le futur du genre narratif.

De tous les nerds de la planète Hollywood et ses satellites, Guillermo Del Toro a quelque chose de plus. Non pas qu'il connaisse sur le bout des doigts le cinéma, les comics, les animes japonais ou le jeu vidéo, cette érudition est une banalité partagée. Si Del Toro fait la différence, ce n'est pas non plus que par son étonnant savoir-faire, mais parce qu'il ne perd jamais de vue les sentiments. Geek bedonnant au cinéma plein et racé, le cinéaste mexicain est un romantique. Irrational Interviews 9: Guillermo del Toro, Part 1.

By ig.eduardo on October 31 2011 Guillermo del Toro is known for films like Blade 2, Pan’s Labyrinth and the Hellboy series, bringing a specific brand of horror to his works, but it’s his passion for the nerd culture and a love for games that has guided him to where he is today.

For this Halloween installment of Irrational Interviews, Creative Director Ken Levine had a chance to sit down with this master of horror to talk about how to tell a frightening story, and how to create a character that is a monster to better suit the narrative at hand. Levine and del Toro also chat about the concept of passion, passion for what they do, and how that kind of enthusiasm helps on each project they work on.

“Films are fantastic – they are one of the peaks of human narrative. B-Positive? Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan Have Something Special in Mind for You. Department of Human Management: "Meet B Positive Singles" If the term Department of Human Management gives you a bit of a chill, check out the Web site.

At departmentofhumanmanagement.org, you will find information on such topics as How To Live ("your guide to living, connecting, and interacting with our new environmental factors") and an About Us page that talks about creating "a support system for citizens to uphold our new status quo. " A hint as to what that status quo involves comes from the bright red badge at the bottom of the page: "Give Blood Every 5 Days. " Another hint comes from the crawl at the top: "Ignore the lies and propaganda of The Strain Trilogy. " Guillermo Del Toro, Part I: Videogames, Transmedia and Here's His E-mail - indieWIRE.

Guillermo Del Toro.

Photo courtesy James Everett/Flickr, licensed under Creative Commons. Guillermo Del Toro's name adorns posters for the horror remake "Don't Be Afraid of the Dark," which opens this week, but the director has a lot more on his mind aside from how to scare people. For "Dark," Del Toro co-wrote the Troy Nixey-directed adaptation, served as a producer and also lent his name as a presenter of the project.

That multihyphenate approach reflects Del Toro's vision of storytelling as a practice that can take many forms. Although he's currently in Toronto shooting the big budget sci-fi epic "Pacific Rim," he's also overseeing a number of projects that extend beyond the world of conventional cinema. In addition to your various film projects, you're also developing a videogame project called "Insane. " I've been working on it for almost a year. A lot of people think videogames are cinematic, but that can have many meanings. We talked a lot about different versions of the game. Guillermo del Toro’s Amazing Creatures.

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INSANE. Guillermo del Toro is ‘inSANE’ about gaming. Del Toro to Unleash a Monster of a Movie. Things may be looking up for Guillermo del Toro.

The director of “Pan’s Labyrinth” and ”Hellboy” has seen a spate of movie projects fall through recently, from “The Hobbit” series, which he withdrew from after delays, to a $150 million adaptation of his dream project, H.P. Lovecraft’s “At the Mountains of Madness,” which was apparently done in by budget squeamishness and an R rating, as he told The New Yorker. In the meantime Mr. del Toro had announced a deal for a video game trilogy called inSANE.

Now it appears that his fantastical and violent directorial vision will once again find its way to the big screen with “Pacific Rim,” a monster flick already in preproduction. Guillermo del Toro to Direct Commercials - Heat Vision. Kevin Winter/Getty Images Get ready for commercials directed by Guillermo del Toro.

The filmmaker has joined commercial and music video production house Motion Theory, whose directors include Mathew Cullen, Grady Hall, Jesus de Francisco, Mark Kudsi, Kaan Atilla, Chris Riehl, Syyn Labs and Christopher Leone. The move to the ad world was likely inevitable as Cullen and Motion Theory exec Javier Jimenez are partners with del Toro in the filmmaker’s transmedia venture Mirada, a company that aims to be a space for he and other filmmakers to incubate and launch projects for a broad spectrum of disciplines. “Monsters Are Living, Breathing Metaphors” With rendition switcher Question: What do monsters represent metaphorically?

Guillermo del Toro: I think that I’m interested in monsters not because they have a specific value, you know, I actually think they are, they have multiple values depending on how you use them. They are symbols of great power. I think that at some point, when we became thinking creatures, we decided to interpret the world by creating a mythology of gods and monsters. You know, we created angels, we created demons, we created serpents devouring the moon. And monsters were born at the same time that the angels or any of the beatific creatures and characters were created.

But Western culture tells you that we understand the world through opposites only. Guillermo del Toro’s Amazing Creatures. In 1926, Forrest Ackerman, a nine-year-old misfit in Los Angeles, visited a newsstand and bought a copy of Amazing Stories—a new magazine about aliens, monsters, and other oddities.

By the time he reached the final page, he had become America’s first fanboy. He started a group called the Boys’ Scientifiction Club; in 1939, he wore an outer-space outfit to a convention for fantasy aficionados, establishing a costuming ritual still followed by the hordes at Comic-Con. Ackerman founded a cult magazine, Famous Monsters of Filmland, and, more lucratively, became an agent for horror and science-fiction writers. He crammed an eighteen-room house in Los Feliz with genre memorabilia, including a vampire cape worn by Bela Lugosi and a model of the pteranodon that tried to abscond with Fay Wray in “King Kong.” Ackerman eventually sold off his collection to pay medical bills, and in 2008 he died. But he had an heir. Tout sur Del Toro - Le fil cinéma.