Guillermo del Toro explains the biggest mistake people make in telling stories for children
Guillermo del Toro has directed some of the coolheaded picture show of the preceding 10 or so , include Pan ’s Labyrinth and Hellboy , plus the upcoming monster / robot smackdown Pacific Rim . But he ’s also gotten into producing animated films for tiddler , including Kung - Fu Panda and the upcoming cost increase of the Guardians . We were favorable enough to get a chance to mouth one - on - one with del Toro about Rise of the Guardians , and he explain to us why children ’s stories need to be dark , because “ kids are psychoneurotic ....