Guillermo del Toro nailed it when he told Roar Uthaug during a recent conversation that his “Troll” movie showcased a playful blend of Norwegian sensibility and American flair.

Uthaug, whose anticipated Norwegian monster sequel “ Troll 2 ” drops Monday on Netflix , grew up watching the same 1990s sci-fi and disaster movies that shaped a generation of Hollywood filmmakers.

“I got the idea for a troll movie like this back in the ’90s,” he tells Variety in an interview alongside Jenny Stjernströmer Björk, VP of Nordic content at Netflix. “That was after watching ‘Armageddon’ and ‘Independence Day’ and ‘Jurassic Park.’ I was thinking, ‘How could we do this in Norway? What would that be about?’”

He then stumbled on a century-old drawing by Norwegian artist Theodor Kittelsen portray

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