Advanced Look At Guillermo del Toro’s Trollhunters Series

It’s Not Child’s Play

♦This week, Netflix premiere’s Dreamworks’ Trollhunters animated show, created by Guillermo del Toro and ahead of that here’s a small featurette on it…

A story of ordinary kids turned heroes, set against a visually breathtaking world created by the legendary Guillermo del Toro. Dreamworks Trollhunters comes to Netflix on 23 December.

Here is what wikipedia had to say about it:

Trollhunters is an upcoming American computer-animated television series created for Netflix by Guillermo del Toro, produced by Cha Cha Cha Films and DreamWorks Animation.

The first two episodes of the series premiered on October 8, 2016, at the New York Comic Con. It will be released worldwide on Netflix on December 23, 2016.

When ordinary teenager Jim Lake Jr. stumbles upon a mystical amulet on his way to school one morning, he inadvertently discovers an extraordinary secret civilization of mighty trolls beneath his small town of Arcadia. Strong-willed and seeking adventure but wholly unprepared for the responsibilities thrust upon him, Jim is forced to take on the exalted mantle of Trollhunter, sworn to protect the good trolls from powerful enemies bent on revenge. The first human ever to hold the honor, Jim abruptly goes from fighting his way through the daily mayhem of high school to joining a war that has raged for centuries, a conflict that now threatens all of mankind and troll-kind alike. Accompanied by his closest human friends and a few key troll allies, the courageous fifteen-year-old must plunge headlong into a fantastical world of astonishing creatures, glorious cities, and fierce enemies desperate to destroy him. Suddenly destined to play a crucial role in an ancient battle of good and evil with stakes that couldn’t be higher, Jim is determined to save the world while trying to survive high school. The cast includes the late Anton Yelchin as Jim Lake Jr., Charlie Saxton as Toby Domzalski, Kelsey Grammer as Blinky, Del Toro regular Ron Perlman as Bular^, Steven (The Walking Dead) Yeun as Steve, Jonathan Hyde as Walter Strickler, Lexi Medrano as Claire Nuñez, Amy Landecker and Fred Tatasciore as AAARRRGGHH!!!