At the Mountains of Madness - Guillermo Del Toro's Next Project! - Part 1

[DarkKnight88]

When theatres do open again, I feel like this is a project that would need an Imax. Big!

I don’t think it’ll happen though. Del Toro has like a hundred project lined up.

 

[Boom]

Take it to Netflix.

 

[terry78]

Netflix, Amazon, whoever the ****.

 

[Arachnerd]

Del Toro Still Determined To Make "Madness" - Dark Horizons

The day this is greenlit will be one of the happiest days of my life.

 

[OtherwiseKnownAs]

This can absolutely be made now. The landscape in terms of box-office for R-Rated movies is entirely different.

Obviously the box-office shouldn’t be the end-all-be-all when making a movie, but a larger possible profit makes studios willing to invest more in a movie.

 

[Boom]

 

[TheVileOne]

I remember these guys in the script.

 

[chamber-music]

Netflix, Amazon, whoever the ****.

considering some of the garbage these companies spend money on you would think perhaps one of these streaming platforms would front some cash for this. Netflix, Amazon, Apple, ect.

 

[dark_b]

This would should be very cheap with todays CGI effects. it was very different in 2008 and 2011. in 2020 its so cheap that he could made it for 100 millions easily. Plus he won an oscar .

 

[venom892]

He was in the middle of Nightmare Alley when the pandemic hit, so he'll have to finish that. Quite looking forward to it too. This definitely the projest he's wanted to do the longest. I hope he can make it next. as mentioned above, the long time waiting might have been to his advantage.

 

[Boom]

This strikes me as the sort of movie that would struggle in theaters (in relation to the budget) but perform very well on a streaming service.

 

[Luigi]

Del Toro Still Determined To Make "Madness" - Dark Horizons

Still not giving up hope. I need this.

 

[Boom]

Guillermo del Toro Says Never Say Die to 'At the Mountains of Madness' But There's Plenty He'd Change About It

 

[Doctor Jones]

Now is the time with streaming.

 

[DarkKnight88]

Well if he ends up making it with Netflix, I hope they do a theatrical hybrid, cause a film like this is meant to be seen on Imax with del Toro’s visuals.

 

[Boom]

Now is the time with streaming.

If GDT makes a concerted effort to scale things back with this project, then Amazon and Netflix could fund it in their sleep. Heck, maybe WarnerMedia will come crawling back to the table now that they need content for HBO Max.

New ballgame. Rewrite the script and let's gooooo.

 

[OtherwiseKnownAs]

Now is the time. Especially with the younger generation (I’m including myself in this) who have more context than ever for cosmic horror through its use in video games. The people are ready for giant alien gods.

 

[DarkKnight88]

Ooh, I’m excited for when Twitter discovers the author of their favorite new movie was a terrible racist lol

 

[Sawyer]

Ooh, I’m excited for when Twitter discovers the author of their favorite new movie was a terrible racist lol

I don’t know what will be better: that, or Ben Shapiro popping up and shrieking “The left is trying to CAncEl Hp LovEcRAfT!!!” in that annoying little pipsqueak voice of his.

 

[OtherwiseKnownAs]

Ooh, I’m excited for when Twitter discovers the author of their favorite new movie was a terrible racist lol

Lovecraft being a racist is pretty well-known.

 

[DarkKnight88]

Lovecraft being a racist is pretty well-known.

That's like saying Lovecraft is well known to the general public, which he isn't.

Wait until he's "discovered".

 

[Eddie Dean]

Cthulhu is known. There are plushies of him everywhere

 

[OtherwiseKnownAs]

That's like saying Lovecraft is well known to the general public, which he isn't.

Wait until he's "discovered".

I mean, he’s definitely more well-known to people who use twitter than people who don’t.

 

[chamber-music]

Lovecraft being a racist isn't some great secret. Warren Ellis Planetary comics from the 2000's had the lead character encounter Lovecraft and Lovecraft delivering some dumbass racist comment.

Most people just assume a large bunch people from the past were probably racist.

 

[DarkKnight88]

I think you’re missing the point. Nothing from the past is a secret obviously. It’s the fact that when something comes out that popularizes a thing from a while back that is niche, people then seem to “discover” these things as if they’re new, namely the world of Twitter and we get a hundred think piece about it. This happens all the time. Did y’all forget the million questions Spielberg fielded about Ronald Dahl when The BFG came out? And that was 2015 lol