Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities, a Netflix horror anthology series that was previously known as Guillermo del Toro's 10 After Midnight, has revealed its official cast and directors.
Deadline confirmed that Cabinet of Curiosities is now in production in Toronto, with del Toro serving as an executive producer and co-showrunner alongside J. Miles Dale. The show is described as a collection of "eight sinister tales," including two original stories written by del Toro, that range from "macabre to magical, gothic to grotesque or classically creepy."
Cabinet of Curiosities' directors include Jennifer Kent (The Babadook), David Prior (The Empty Man), Guillermo Navarro (Hannibal), Keith Thomas (Blumhouse's Firestarter), Panos Cosmatos (Mandy), Catherine Hardwicke (Twilight), Vincenzo Natali (Splice) and Ana Lily Amirpour (A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night). Joining del Toro, Kent, Cosmatos and Natali as writers on the show are David S. Goyer (Krypton), Regina Corrado (The Strain), Lee Patterson (Curve), Aaron Stewart-Ahn (Mandy), Mika Watkins (Origin) and Haley Z. Boston (Brand New Cherry Flavor).
Among the series' stars are Essie Davis (The Babadook), Andrew Lincoln (The Walking Dead), Hannah Galway (Sex/Life), F. Murray Abraham (Mythic Quest), Glynn Turman (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom), Tim Blake Nelson (Watchmen), Luke Roberts (Ransom), Elpidia Carrillo (Euphoria), Demetrius Grosse (Fear The Walking Dead), Sebastian Roché (The Man in the High Castle), Crispin Glover (Back to the Future), Peter Weller (Star Trek Into Darkness) and David Hewlett (See). Actors appearing in the episodes helmed by Hardwicke and Amirpour will be announced at a later date.
Cabinet of Curiosities marks the latest collaboration between Netflix and del Toro after they teamed up on the Trollhunters animated series and the other entries in del Toro's Tales of Arcadia franchise. The pair are also working together on del Toro's Pinocchio, a stop-motion animated musical retelling of Carlo Collodi's classic fairy tale that shifts the story to Fascist Italy during the 1930s. Pinocchio was originally slated to begin streaming in 2021, but is now expected to arrive in 2022 at the earliest.
If all that wasn't enough, del Toro is preparing for the release of his next directorial effort, Nightmare Alley, a live-action film adaptation of William Lindsay Gresham's 1946 novel that takes place in a sleazy, second-rate carnival. Searchlight Pictures currently has the movie scheduled to hit theaters on Dec. 3.
Source: Deadline