Prepare for the Guillermo del Toro decade

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‘One of the gentle souls in the movie business is Guillermo del Toro, and I always look forward to my interviews with him,’ writes Geoff Boucher on our Hero Complex blog.

Boucher wrote about Mexican fiction mastermind Del Toro in today’s Calendar section, and an extended version of the article runs on the blog.

Fantasy and horror fans, prepare yourself for the Decade of Del Toro.
On the far side of the globe, in New Zealand, filmmaker Guillermo del Toro is now in his seventh month of labor on “The Hobbit,” a $300-million epic that will be told over two films in 2011 and 2012. But you can also find the Guadalajara native on the shelf of your local bookstore with his just-released debut novel, “The Strain,” the opening installment of a vampire trilogy he already has mapped out.

That’s only the beginning. The 44-year-old Del Toro, who was nominated for an Oscar for the dark fairy tale “Pan’s Labyrinth” and showed his crowd-pleasing sensibilities with the “Hellboy” films, also has plans to reanimate some musty and monstrous literary classics. He plans to make a “Frankenstein” film as well as an adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s epic “At the Mountains of Madness,” a project he breathlessly refers to as ‘my obsession.’

-- Deborah Bonello in Mexico City