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

[Figs]

If my memory serves me right, I remember when they were leaving

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from the city via helicopter, it said he turned around and couldn't describe the horror he saw. I figure it's the Shoggoth coming outside but I thought he caught a glimpse of something else entirely.

I could have sworn that happened at the end but I might be thinking of another story.

 

[Boom]

That's correct.

I guess it could have been Cthulhu, but Lovecraft never makes it clear as to what Danforth sees.

 

[Whiskey Tango]

Sticking Cthulhu in there as anything other than a wall carving or something strikes me as too fan-servicey. Make a good movie based on Mountains and maybe you can get a Cthulhu film made somewhere down the line.

 

[Figs]

That's correct.

I guess it could have been Cthulhu, but Lovecraft never makes it clear as to what Danforth sees.

Oh, I wasn't suggesting that it was Cthulu, just some other monster that he might have in store for us.

 

[Doctor Jones]

In the script I thought it was Cthulu?

 

[Figs]

In the script I thought it was Cthulu?

We're just talking about the book though. I never read the script so it very well may have been the big C.

 

[Boom]

The higher sky, as we crossed the range, was surely vaporous and disturbed enough; and although I did not see the zenith I can well imagine that its swirls of ice-dust may have taken strange forms. Imagination, knowing how vividly distant scenes can sometimes be reflected, refracted, and magnified by such layers of restless cloud, might easily have supplied the rest - and of course Danforth did not hint any of those specific horrors till after his memory had had a chance to draw on his bygone reading. He could never have seen so much in one instantaneous glance.

At the time his shrieks were confined to the repetition of a single mad word of all too obvious source:

"Tekeli-li! Tekeli-li!"

"Tekeli-li" was a word used by the Elder Things and the Shoggoth, so its possible that Danforth just saw the Shoggoth in broad daylight.

Danforth also uttered the following during his fits:

"The black pit."
"The carven rim."
"The proto-shoggoths."
"The windowless solids of five dimensions."
"The nameless cylinder."
"The elder pharos."
"Yog-Sothoth."
"The primal white jelly."
"The colour out of space."
"The wings."
"The eyes in darkness."
"The moon-ladder."
"The original, the eternal, the undying."

 

[Doctor Jones]

We're just talking about the book though. I never read the script so it very well may have been the big C.

It appeared at the end of the script, but you couldn't see it completely.

So I guess that was scrapped.

 

[CrimsonMist]

In the script I thought it was Cthulu?

In the script, The Dark Man's actual form, Nyarlathotep aka The Crawling Chaos. While this isn't in the book, I thought it made a great addition to the script in revealing what was seen by Danfoth. Nyarlathotep has thousands of forms, some of which are absolutely terrifying.

Glad to see Cthulhu removed from the script. As much as I'd like to see him in a big budget Lovecraft movie, his presence in ATMOM felt forced and uncalled for. Though this now calls for some other revisions to the script as well, as the shaggoths were more or less worshippers of Cthulhu, where they should, more or less, worship Nyarlathotep or atleast Azathoth...or something. Just not Cthulhu.

In the novel, If i recall correctly, created the shaggoths, in part, to do their dirty work as slaves. But they were also used to help fight off the star-spawn of Cthulhu. Meaning that the shaggoths and Cthulhu are enemies. Also in the novel, there's a bigger mountain that the elder things never went near, but the shaggoths did, as their god dwelled there. Couldn't be Cthulhu as he's off sleeping far from Antarctica.

 

[Crockett]

I'm glad if he won't put Cthulhu in the movie, my guess was that Danforth saw one of the Mi-go's.

 

[elgato]

However Cthulhu does not appear in this book, his "spawn" do, the race that the Elder Gods fought has a short appearence in flashback scenes.
Cthulhu's spawn are small copies of the God.

 

[Boom]

The spawn of Cthulhu are mentioned in ATMOM, but not shown. Professor Dyer learns of their existence in the bas-relief carvings and sculptures in the dead city (where he learns the history of the Elder Things).

But elgato has a point. If GDT elects to show us the history of the Elder Things via flashback, then we should get a glimpse of the Cthulhu spawn.

 

[WildcatNC]

Sticking Cthulhu in there as anything other than a wall carving or something strikes me as too fan-servicey. Make a good movie based on Mountains and maybe you can get a Cthulhu film made somewhere down the line.

Agree 100%

There is a TON of good material for a great filmmaker in Lovecrafts mythology.

I'm a HUGE Lovecraft fan and am psyched about GDT doing it.

My hope is that At The Mountains of Madness is to Del Toro what Fellowship of the Ring was to Peter Jackson. The beginning of a hugely successful series that brings an incredible mythology to life and just completely kicks ass.

 

[elgato]

The spawn of Cthulhu are mentioned in ATMOM, but not shown. Professor Dyer learns of their existence in the bas-relief carvings and sculptures in the dead city (where he learns the history of the Elder Things).

But elgato has a point. If GDT elects to show us the history of the Elder Things via flashback, then we should get a glimpse of the Cthulhu spawn.

Actually that would be a good point over Del Toro's intention of turning the horror story into a kind of documentary of these creature's existance. (Cthulhu in film already happenned in an spanish movie called the "La Sombra Prohibida", the "Foribbiden Shadow) here's the trailer

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Video not showing up.

 

[elgato]

Video not showing up.

I'll PM you the link, since I'll get banned if I do it here.

 

[Timstuff]

I saw the trailer on Youtube and I didn't see anything ban-worthy about it.

 

[Figs]

Not sure about it. I'll give it a watch, but I'm not expecting anything great. Seeing Cthulu rise up was pretty badass though.

 

[Secret Fawful]

Seeing Cthulu rise up was pretty badass though.

The trailer shocked me with how well done the effects on that were, but I also have problems with a Lovecraft movie that shows too much. I'll be checking it out myself as well. Check out the trailer to the movie it's a sequel to. The first one, La Herencia De Valdemar, looks badass.

 

[CrimsonMist]

The trailer shocked me with how well done the effects on that were, but I also have problems with a Lovecraft movie that shows too much. I'll be checking it out myself as well. Check out the trailer to the movie it's a sequel to. The first one, La Herencia De Valdemar, looks badass.

And oh how it is! It's a nice return to the slow burner/gothic horror films of old. The first is more of a period piece interspersed with modern stuff, and it's my understanding that the second one will be more modern, but whatever. It looks awesome. Apparently the films are being handled by Universal, so hopefully an American DVD release comes out soon.

 

[Secret Fawful]

That's exactly what I wanted to hear.

 

[elgato]

I saw the trailer on Youtube and I didn't see anything ban-worthy about it.

Direct links are prohibited, as I remember, sorry, I've been gone for a very long time, I'm getting used to the terms here, again.

 

[Figs]

The trailer shocked me with how well done the effects on that were, but I also have problems with a Lovecraft movie that shows too much. I'll be checking it out myself as well. Check out the trailer to the movie it's a sequel to. The first one, La Herencia De Valdemar, looks badass.

I'll give it a look, thanks for the heads up.

 

[Timstuff]

Direct links are prohibited, as I remember, sorry, I've been gone for a very long time, I'm getting used to the terms here, again.

No, you are thinking of hotlinking, as in taking an image URL from a website other than a image hosting site and then posting it in these forums with [/img] tags. Direct links to other websites have never been against the rules.

 

[Boom]

Just finished The Shadow Over Innsmouth. Would love to get a big-budget adaptation of that.

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