MUMBAI: Guillermo del Toro will write and direct DreamWorks Animation‘s Trollhunters.

After visiting DWA‘s campus in Glendale, California, del Toro has decided to make DWA his animation home. He will serve as a consultant and executive producer of several projects including Kung Fu Panda 2, Puss in Boots and a yet-to-be-revealed project all under development. He will also have a say in DWA‘s next feature Megamind that is scheduled to release on 5 November.

del Toro feels that animation has caught his eye because he believes that during the next 10 years, the entertainment landscape will shift into a transmedia world -- a confluence of films, TV, books, video and online, while artistes will need to be educated in all aspects of media.

Trollhunters is based on a young-adult book del Toro wrote and submitted to publisher Hyperion two weeks ago. He originally came up with the idea around the time he sold The Strain the vampire book trilogy he is writing with Chuck Hogan.

Due to the evolutionary process of animated filmmaking, the script will be written and rewritten over a period of time, including during production. Del Toro has already started writing Trollhunters and plans to finish it before he shoots At the Mountains of Madness.