According to The Hollywood Reporter Guillermo del Toro has fallen under the spell of animation and is setting up Trollhunters, a feature project he will write and direct at DreamWorks Animation.
Trollhunters, a working title and not to be confused with the foreign monster mash Troll Hunters, is based on a young adult book del Toro submitted to publisher Hyperion about two weeks ago.
“I wanted very much to develop a story that could be written for kids but dealt with a genre that was scary,” del Toro tells THR. “It essentially combines fairy tales with modern times and is about how difficult it is to be a kid. Normally, kids are idealized in animated films. But [with] the growing pains, married with the notion that there is a world right next to us that is completely plagued by creatures of ancient lore, it’s thematically fitting with the rest of my stuff.”
Look for more on this one soon!