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Guillermo del Toro Teases His Return to TV’s Longest Running Live-Action Sitcom
In just over one week, Guillermo del Toro will return for his sixth round at the Academy Awards as a nominee thanks to his latest monstrous feature, Frankenstein. Over the last two decades, the celebrated helmer has turned up at the yearly award show courtesy of past projects like Pan’s Labyrinth, Hellboy II: The Golden Army, The Shape of Water, Nightmare Alley, and Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio. Of the previous five trips, he’s walked away with an arm full of trophies three different times, with his most wins clocked by 2017’s sci-fi thriller The Shape of Water. This time around, he and the folks behind Frankenstein, which include leading stars Jacob Elordi and Oscar Isaac, are up for a whopping nine nominations. And, with all the buzz surrounding the Netflix film, it’s more than likely that they’ll walk away with at least one award if not several more.
Whether it’s as a director, writer, producer, or creature crafter, del Toro has kept himself incredibly busy year after year, delighting audiences with every project that has his name attached. Beyond his award-season takeover with Frankenstein, del Toro is also hard at work putting together two other features. For starters, he’ll reteam with Netflix for the animated feature The Buried Giant, which serves as an adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s fantasy novel of the same name. Beyond that, he has a Frankenstein reunion brewing with Isaac, with the pair pushing forward on a new thriller titled Fury. But that’s not all!
Earlier this week, the Crimson Peak helmer took to social media to tease his return to the longest-running live-action sitcom of all time. That’s right, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia fans — Pappy McPoyle is back! Giving his X followers a peek behind the scenes, del Toro posted a shot of himself as the incredibly disheveled character who we haven’t seen since Season 11. The image implies that we’ll be getting a McPoyle-heavy episode in the upcoming eighteenth season that will put the celebrated director back in front of the camera and throw him into the raucous madness of our favorite series.
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When Can We Expect Season 18 of ‘It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’?
Now that Pappy — we mean del Toro — is back in action, when can audiences expect the gang’s triumphant return for Season 18 of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia? The good news is that it certainly doesn’t look like there will be multiple years between seasons this time around, as filming has been underway for a few weeks. Rob Mac, Kaitlin Olson, Charlie Day, and Glenn Howerton haven’t shied away from filling fans in on how things are progressing, with multiple posts finding their way onto social media since cameras picked up.
Check out del Toro reprise his greatest role yet in the X post above and stay tuned for more updates to come about It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’s historic Season 18.
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August 4, 2005
- Directors
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Matt Shakman, Fred Savage, Todd Biermann, Daniel Attias, Richie Keen, Randall Einhorn, Heath Cullens, Pete Chatmon, Jerry Levine, Kat Coiro, Megan Ganz, Jamie Babbit, John Fortenberry, Maurice Marable, Kimberly McCullough, Imani Hakim, LP, Tim Roche
- Writers
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Scott Marder, Rob Rosell, Dave Chernin, John Chernin, Dannah Feinglass Phirman, Danielle Schneider, Conor Galvin, Becky Mann, Luvh Rakhe, Audra Sielaff, Eric Ledgin, Patrick Walsh, Lee Sung-jin, Mehar Sethi, Nina Pedrad, Keyonna Taylor, D. B. Weiss, David Benioff, Elijah Aron, Hunter Covington, Jordan Young, Adam Stein, Chris Romano, Eric Falconer