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

[Cyrusbales]

I actually thought the story was the best sounding thing there

Well it sounded a little ambiguous and in the hands of anyone else, I could have seen it going badly. But del toro fits the project to make it fulfill it's potential

 

[Cinemaman]

I actually thought the story was the best sounding thing there

Agreed

 

[Darth Elektra]

Has anyone read the book? Im going to buy it tommorrow at my local borders.

 

[Flexo]

Has anyone read the book? Im going to buy it tommorrow at my local borders.

I think At The Mountains of Madness is a bad starting point for a Lovecraft newb.

It has a lot to do with his other stories, so it makes more sense if you read it after the others.

If you're going to buy it anyways, don't buy it alone. Go for The Road to Madness. It includes ATMoM and some other great stories (Herbert West; Reanimator.) Just skip some of the earlier stories. (The book contains a progression of H.P.'s works, so they get better as you go.)

 

[Addendum]

And if you like The Road to Madness, pick up Dreams of Terror and Death: The Dream Cycle of Lovecraft and The Best of H.P. Lovecraft.

I agree. Re-animator was SO hyped up, and I thought it was utter crap, and almost blasphemous to make Lovecraft's work into a comedy (and a ****ty one at that).But that said, Hellboy had a lot of lovecraftian elements and I thought it was brilliant, so if any director can do it, I believe it's del toro.

I've never seen Hellboy since I've never read the comic.

 

[Darth Elektra]

I think At The Mountains of Madness is a bad starting point for a Lovecraft newb.

It has a lot to do with his other stories, so it makes more sense if you read it after the others.

If you're going to buy it anyways, don't buy it alone. Go for The Road to Madness. It includes ATMoM and some other great stories (Herbert West; Reanimator.) Just skip some of the earlier stories. (The book contains a progression of H.P.'s works, so they get better as you go.)

ok, thanks.

 

[Hunter Rider]

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=37976

This is Madness! It's Guillermo del Toro's Next
Source: Latino Review
October 3, 2007


Director Guillermo del Toro will follow Hellboy 2 with his longtime passion project, At the Mountains of Madness, reports Latino Review.

The film is an adaptation of the H.P. Lovecraft novel, which features a chilling recollection of an Antarctic expedition's uncanny discoveries–and their encounter with untold menace in the ruins of a lost civilization.

Universal Pictures will distribute and AngryFilms' Susan Montford and Don Murphy will produce.

The site adds that Del Toro is still doing Tarzan for Warner Bros., but that script isn't ready yet.

 

[Bumblebee]

Sounds cool. Guillermo del Toro always makes good movies. I loved Hellboy and Pan's Labrinth(sp?). Does anyone have any idea when they'll start production or when it'll be released?

 

[terry78]

I hope he does this. Bringing it to the screen is going to be a task, though.

 

[블라스]

Hahahaha finally!

 

[Darth Elektra]

Great news!

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

I hope he does this. Bringing it to the screen is going to be a task, though.

He's up to it.

 

[chamber-music]

I would watch Guillermo Del Toro do his laundry. The guys a Genuis!

 

[Whiskey Tango]

Kickass! Del Toro's pretty dang talented, at last maybe we'll get a awesome Lovecraft adaptation. I am pleased with these developments.

Edit: Ugh, Don Murphy better keep his nose out of things! *shakes fist*

 

[Carmine Falcone]

I don't know the material but I must say it is one hell of a delicious title.

 

[Darkly Dexter]

awesome news

 

[Denny67]

Has anyone read the book? Im going to buy it tommorrow at my local borders.

Reading it now... so far it is very good. Dated in parts but good.

I read the The Call of Cthulhu when I was in Jr High and loved it. I don't know why I have not gone back and read more of H.P. Lovecraft's stuff until now.

Most of the demons in Hellboy looked to be very Cthulhu inspired. I have a feeling Guillermo del Toro is a Lovecraft fan. If that is the case, like with all of his projects he is going to be very passionate about the material.

All of the means good things for us fans.

 

[Addendum]

Well, since I made my earlier posts in this thread, I bought the Hellboy: Director's Cut and watched Hellboy a couple times. Much better than Blade 2, which was the only movie of Del Toro's I ever saw, and my skepticism has lessened. I still need to watch Pan's Labyrinth though.

 

[Cyrusbales]

watch cronos and the devil's backbone to see what he is realy like.

 

[Figs]

Reading it now... so far it is very good. Dated in parts but good.

I read the The Call of Cthulhu when I was in Jr High and loved it. I don't know why I have not gone back and read more of H.P. Lovecraft's stuff until now.

Most of the demons in Hellboy looked to be very Cthulhu inspired. I have a feeling Guillermo del Toro is a Lovecraft fan. If that is the case, like with all of his projects he is going to be very passionate about the material.

All of the means good things for us fans.

He could be, but for the most part Mike Mignola is a big fan if you've read the Hellboy books.

 

[Denny67]

He could be, but for the most part Mike Mignola is a big fan if you've read the Hellboy books.

read em all

Mike and Guillermo (from speaking with Mike @ comic con) have a lot of the same interests. Cthulhu specifically did not come up but I was kind of putting two and two together when I saw Guillermo del Toro’s name come up for this project.

If it goes well I would love to see him take on some other Lovecraft stories… Cthulhu most of all.

 

[Addendum]

watch cronos and the devil's backbone to see what he is realy like.

None of the stores in town have copies of Devil's Backbone

And I don't have a credit card, so online purchases are few and far between

 

[deathshead2]

Yay this should be sweet.
I hope when he does tarzan it'll be epic.

 

[Hunter Rider]

http://www.shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=1731

For many years, del Toro has been associated with an adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness, which was rumored to be his next movie, but he had nothing more to say about whether that's true. "I wish I knew, but Universal has acquired it, which is a great thing because it was in limbo, and I have, together with Michael, self-financed the designs and maquettes and everything, but we'll see. It's R-rated, it's expensive and it doesn't have a happy ending. I think that big-scale horror, big tentpole horror, which you used to have with 'Alien,' 'The Shining,' 'The Exorcist' before everyone thought horror needs to be this or that and pre-conceptualized, I think big tentpole like that should be back at some point in life, so I'm patiently waiting my turn."

"If I had the freedom to choose and the chance to hold it until its done, I'd do 'Mountains' right away," he continued, "but what I learned in the horrible years in between 'Cronos' and 'Mimic' and 'Mimic' and 'Devil's Backbone' is that if I did that, it takes me four years to get a movie off the ground, and it never happened in the order. I wrote 'Spanky: Mephisto's Bridge' right after 'Cronos' and it was a beautiful script, then I wrote 'Monte Cristo' then I wrote 'List of Seven.' None of them happened; they haven't happened yet, so what I understand now is that if I keep four or five things that I truly love in the fire, one of them becomes true." He does say that he's going to produce one of those scripts he wrote but never got to make with a first-time director for Miramax, but he couldn't announce which one just yet.

Now that he's in bed with Universal Studios, there's been rumors of Guillermo maybe doing something with some of Universal's classic monsters like Frankenstein, Wolfman, Dracula or the Mummy, but when asked which one he might want to tackle, his answer might surprise some people. "The movie I would kill to do — and I know it's been done and I'm very conscious of that—but to do 'Frankenstein' but to do Frankenstein as the Miltonian tragedy that it is. I remember reading the Frank Darabont screenplay that was illustrated by Bernie Wrightson, and saying, 'That's it! I'm screwed and never going to do it' but thanks to Kenneth Branagh, I can still do that version."

 

[ChickenScratch]

This is really exciting news. Lovecraft's work is pretty difficult to adapt to the screen because of his way of everything connecting to everything else. A story can be amazing but with Lovecraft if you have read the stories around it it makes it out of this world spectacular. In this way I always thought MoM would be difficult to adapt because of lot of it's cache depends on you have knowledge of Lovecraft's universe as a whole.

Oh, and by the by. How insane would a "Cthulhu" movie be? I've seen so many versions of him in art and I love the really massive ones, but that's kinda hard to work on screen.