Netflix has just handed out a straight-to-series order of a horror anthology series created by Academy Award-winning director Guillermo del Toro. Titled Guillermo del Toro Presents 10 After Midnight, the series will feature “equally sophisticated and horrific” stories which will be personally curated by del Toro. The exact episode count and premiere date remain unknown.
Netflix is also keeping other details under wraps but revealed that Guillermo del Toro will write and direct some of the episodes. The Shape of Water director will also personally choose the team of writers who will adapt his stories for television. This will be Netflix’s first original anthology series.
This won’t be the first time that Guillermo del Toro and Netflix work together. Del Toro already created an animated series Trollhunters for the streaming service, which ended up becoming a huge hit. Following the success of Trollhunters, del Toro announced that the animated series is expanding into a trilogy titled Tales of Arcadia. The second installment of the trilogy will be sci-fi animated series 3 Below with a premiere date in 2018, while the third installment, Wizards, is scheduled to air in 2019.
Guillermo del Toro previously co-created horror drama The Strain, which run for four seasons on FX and received positive reviews. He also worked on Mexican anthology series La Hora Marcada on the beginning of his career.
