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Guillermo del Toro’s Trollhunters will air on Netflix

Netflix grabs Guillermo del Toro animated series

We love Guillermo del Toro at SciFiNow, so any del Toro news is good news, especially when it comes with an actual release date.

Variety reports that Netflix has snapped up del Toro’s animated series Trollhunters, which “will unleash a new, fantastical world wrapped around two best friends who make a startling discovery beneath their hometown”, and they’re also rebooting Voltron.

Trollhunters will be based on the children’s book by del Toro and Daniel Krauss, with illustrations by Sean Murray.

The books synopsis is as follows:

“You are food. Those muscles you flex to walk, lift, and talk? They’re patties of meat topped with chewy tendon. That skin you’ve paid so much attention to in mirrors? It’s delicious to the right tongues, a casserole of succulent tissue. And those bones that give you the strength to make your way in the world? They rattle between teeth as the marrow is sucked down slobbering throats. These facts are unpleasant but useful. There are things out there, you see, that don’t cower in holes to be captured by us and cooked over our fires. These things have their own ways of trapping their kills, their own fires, their own appetites.”

Jim Sturges is your typical teen in suburban San Bernardino-one with an embarrassingly overprotective dad, a best friend named “Tubby” who shares his hatred of all things torturous (like gym class), and a crush on a girl who doesn’t know he exists. But everything changes for Jim when a 45-year old mystery resurfaces, threatening the lives of everyone in his seemingly sleepy town. Soon Jim has to team up with a band of unlikely (and some un-human) heroes to battle the monsters he never knew existed.”

You can buy Trollhunters for £9.99 at Amazon.co.uk. Keep up with the latest genre news with the new issue of SciFiNow.