You know the saying, Where theres smoke, there is fire?
Guillermo del Toro is adding a variation:
Where there are trolls, there are wizards.
And also … aliens.

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Naturally, it takes Tobys breath away.
(Although, as fans of the show already know, thats easy to do.)
The idea was to create three interconnecting series that shared a mythology, del Toro tells EW.

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When I was in seventh grade, we went into the sewers with flashlights and crossed the whole city.
I dont recommend it!
But we crossed the city from beneath, and thats whereTrollhunterscome from.
I have a strange life.
That gave him an idea for a complex mythology of three narratives that crisscross in a tiny California town.
But its also a parable about the marginalized.