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

[terry78]

That's a pretty nice sacrificial painting up there. They could pull a PG-13 with that one if the pole is strategically placed.

 

[Octoberist]

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.

Imagine if you woke up one morning, and saw THAT walking around the neighborhood!

 

[Shuley]

I read some of the book about half way through it and stopped,I don't remember much of it since it was like 10-15 years ago when I picked it up, it's not that long of a read,it's not a 300 page novel or anything.

 

[ChickenScratch]

That thing's foot could crush your neighbourhood.

It's been years since I've read MoM but I remember there was a pretty decent explanaition of Cuthulu so I expect to see him onscreen.

 

[XtromaniaK]

I'm pretty excited for this movie. I'm an avid lover of Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos, and many of his other stories - Rats in the Walls, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, and others being among them. If there really is a master of the short horror tale, it is him.

 

[Gabe99]

DEADLINE EXCLUSIVE: Guillermo Del Toro And James Cameron Ready To Climb 'Mountains Of Madness'

Since he left The Hobbit, Guillermo del Toro's next film has been a hot topic of conversation. I'm hearing he will next direct At The Mountains Of Madness, an adaptation of the HP Lovecraft tale that will be shot as a 3D film for Universal Pictures. The big surprise is that Avatar director James Cameron will come aboard as a producer. Del Toro was non-committal when I asked him about the prospect of Mountains days ago as we discussed the Comic-Con reaction to Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark. But when del Toro announced at Comic-Con he'd cowrite and produce Haunted Mansion, he told the crowd he'd set his next film shortly, and that it would be scary. At the Mountains of Madness fits that bill, even for del Toro and Universal.

 

[redhawk23]

i hope beyond hope that this film is happenning but I'm not 100% sure I buy this

also there may or may not be a thread on this already.

 

[redhawk23]

already reading only the first couple of paragraphys i notice som errors and some very far stretched claims.

For one it implies this film has not yet already entred preproduction, but del Toro has spoken on a number of occasions of design work done for the past couple of years. this is very fishy

 

[Bunker]

Dude, he heard it from someone. Totally legit.

 

[Boom]

I'll wait for an official press release before I get my hopes up.

But if/when that comes, expect my pants to explode.

 

[childeroland]

Was about to post this--really, really late, as it turns out.

Hell to the yes.

 

[Electrix]

already reading only the first couple of paragraphys i notice som errors and some very far stretched claims.

For one it implies this film has not yet already entred preproduction, but del Toro has spoken on a number of occasions of design work done for the past couple of years. this is very fishy

LOL @ you noticing supposed errors yet misspelling words yourself.

He has done design work but he has never officially entered pre-production because no studio would greenlight it. Now Universal has so he can go beyond the drawings.

 

[redhawk23]

LOL @ you noticing supposed errors yet misspelling words yourself.

He has done design work but he has never officially entered pre-production because no studio would greenlight it. Now Universal has so he can go beyond the drawings.

Errors in reporting is what I meant...

 

[Boom]

He has done design work but he has never officially entered pre-production because no studio would greenlight it.

****ing morons.

 

[Octoberist]

Even though Deadline tends to be cut throat, they can be spot on.

 

[Octoberist]

finally. some octopus god loving

 

[redhawk23]

I'l have to backtrack a through a bunch of pages to find it, but GdT also spoke of work on computer models, and a new rendering programs for the shoggoths. I'll look for the article to confirm it, but it always seemed to me like they got further than drawings. The Hobbit never was greenlit either, but you can bet your ass that theres been a ton of work done on it.

 

[Doctor Jones]

I need to read this book. But I'm excited if this is his next film. They said they would announce what he would direct next after SDCC. Could this be it?

 

[Octoberist]

I think this will be his definite English movie.

 

[redhawk23]

I need to read this book. But I'm excited if this is his next film. They said they would announce what he would direct next after SDCC. Could this be it?

I'm not super sure on the legality of doing so but you can read nearly all of Lovecraft's work here: http://www.dagonbytes.com/thelibrary/lovecraft/

 

[Whiskey Tango]

Oh, please let this be true.

 

[Rac]

Well he said in Comic Con that his next movie would be horror and that he would announce it week or so after CC. Hmm.

 

[Boom]

Cthuuuuluuuuuuu.

 

[redhawk23]

In this article, GdT states that he will be filming in the first quarter of next year, and that it's a project that he's been associated with for a long time. May add a little bit of credence to this.

 

[Octoberist]

well there's direct quotes on the main page now with del Toro talking about the project.