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

[dude stannis]

Too bad The Case of Charles Dexter Ward and Herbert West-Reanimator have already been made into films. Del Toro would've owned faithful adaptations of both.

 

[CrimsonMist]

Too bad The Case of Charles Dexter Ward and Herbert West-Reanimator have already been made into films. Del Toro would've owned faithful adaptations of both.

I always felt that Re-Animator could be done and done better than the Stuart Gordon film. I like Re-Animator, but something that relies less on gore and nudity and more on secluded atmosphere would be pretty damn cool.

Dexter Ward has been made a few times, but my favorite is still the Vincent Price version, moronically called The Haunted Palace.

Del Toro doing The Shadow over Innsmouth would be neat.

 

[Secret Fawful]

What was Dexter Ward adapted as besides the mentioned above?

 

[CrimsonMist]

What was Dexter Ward adapted as besides the mentioned above?

The Resurrected in 1992 by Dan O'Bannon. He has a director's cut that's never been released called The Ancestor which is a little more faithful, too.

 

[dude stannis]

The Haunted Palace.

I always felt that Re-Animator could be done and done better than the Stuart Gordon film. I like Re-Animator, but something that relies less on gore and nudity and more on secluded atmosphere would be pretty damn cool.

Dexter Ward has been made a few times, but my favorite is still the Vincent Price version, moronically called The Haunted Palace.

I loved the Re-Animator film as a horror comedy on it's own. But, oh man, a Re-Animator done faithfully would fill me with sheer terror just as the story did.

I actually haven't seen any of the Dexter Ward adaptations. But I doubt they're that good. Seeing as how none of them have Liam Neeson playing Dr. Willett.

 

[CrimsonMist]

The Haunted Palace.



I loved the Re-Animator film as a horror comedy on it's own. But, oh man, a Re-Animator done faithfully would fill me with sheer terror just as the story did.

I actually haven't seen any of the Dexter Ward adaptations. But I doubt they're that good. Seeing as how none of them have Liam Neeson playing Dr. Willett.

A few friends and I discussed perhaps trying to do a short film adaptation of Re-Animator set in the isolated cabin in black & white with the reagent being the only color(green). It's that or do a feature adaptation of The Hound. It's an exciting thought.

Both Dexter Ward adaptations are pretty good. I dig The Haunted Palace more though...it's a fun little period piece by Roger Corman in the same vein as his Poe films.

 

[dude stannis]

Do The Hound. It's smaller scale and works with the limited setting. And, selfishly, I really wanted to see a short film version of it.

 

[CrimsonMist]

Do The Hound. It's smaller scale and works with the limited setting. And, selfishly, I really wanted to see a short film version of it.

I'm seriously considering The Hound. We started incorporating other elements from different Lovecraft stories though, notably Rats In The Walls. The narrator of The Hound's family has ties to the cult in that story and the house they're staying in is his family's old home. The warlock's corpse from which the two characters steal the jade amulet? That's a relative of the narrator. We wanted to introduce elements of hereditary insanity. The narrator keeps having these nightmares of strange cult rituals and what not and eventually gets driven insane by everything. It's kind of cool. We're working out details slowly.

Re-Animator is really tempting though, since I know some great locations where we can shoot it.

 

[Secret Fawful]

The Resurrected in 1992 by Dan O'Bannon. He has a director's cut that's never been released called The Ancestor which is a little more faithful, too.

Is the director's cut available at all?

 

[Whiskey Tango]

Have been reading some Lovecraft lately and I haven't seen any reason why The Call of Cthulhu itself is so unfilmable.

Granted, it would take a few passes with a good screenwriter as the whole thing is basically Thurston reading his uncle's notes. But one could reframe the entire thing as Thurstons investigation into Prof. Angell demise using the man's incomplete notes and Wilcox's statue. From there the trail leads to Legrasse and the swamp cult and onto the search for Johannsen and his recounting of what he and his crew found at sea.

 

[obin_gam]

The Dunwich Horror needs to be made into a big budget horror. If not by del Toro, I actually think Rob Zombie would be a good fit.

But the one I really want to see made into a The Color Out Of Space. It might have some difficult sequences to adapt into moving pictures, but with love and dedication I can see it be done.

 

[Lord]

I would like to see Call of Chthulhu on the big screen, a tv show based on the chthulhu mythos could alse be cool

 

[Gianakin_]

The Cthulhu mythos is tricky, if they half-ass it it could one of the most disastrous things ever. And I don't think I'll ever see a better version of CoC than the 2005 silent film one.

 

[jonathancrane]

In addition to not half-arsing it, they need to tone down the racism which is in the foreground of a good deal of his works, most notably the Cthulu tales and Herbert West: Re-Animator.

 

[Gianakin_]

In a way, that'd be half-assing it, but I don't completely disagree with you.

 

[MOVIELORD101]

Btw, I still have the script for Del Toro's version. Shame he's decided not to make it because Prometheus has spooked him out of it. If anyone wants it, PM me.

 

[dark_b]

i think del Toro said that this is an old script. i think he made some changes.

 

[Gabe99]

Guillermo Del Toro To Helm ‘Crimson Peak’ As Next Feature, With Legendary Pictures

EXCLUSIVE:

The project originally sold quietly as a spec script to Universal, where del Toro had his deal. “It was the first one I wrote after Pan’s Labyrinth, and I sold it to Donna Langley at Universal,” he said. “She loved it, I was going to direct it, and then Hellboy II happened, and then I was off to New Zealand for The Hobbit. Donna suggested I move aside and produce it. It went out to directors, but I didn’t quite like anyone for it. Finally I went through the experience of Pacific Rim with Warner Bros and Legendary, and it was the best experience I have ever had making a movie, period. I had a really good working relationship with Thomas Tull and Jon Jashni, and they asked what I wanted to do next. I sent them At The Mountains Of Madness, I sent them [The Count Of] Monte Cristo, another project I’ve tried to do for 20 years. I also sent Crimson Peak, but didn’t expect a reaction because it’s not a typical Legendary movie. Much to my surprise, Thomas Tull called 9:30 at night on the day I sent it and said, ‘I don’t know how it ends, but I am on page 45 and I love it.’ Next day, Jon Jashni called and said we think it’s the best project for us, just the right size.” Universal allowed him to move the project, with the caveat the studio can put up money for a stake in the film.

Don’t think for a moment that del Toro has given up his dreams for At The Mountains Of Madness, based on the HP Lovecraft horror classic that Universal unplugged late in the process even though del Toro had Tom Cruise poised to star and James Cameron poised to supervise 3D as producer. Del Toro hopes that Legendary will be part of that effort.

“They love it, but we just finished Pacific Rim,” he said. “They want to let that film happen [it opens July 12] and then my hope is, down the line we can do it. People ask how do i choose projects. All the projects in my roster are there because I love them, but the financing process is serendipity. And often, the ones I think will happen don’t, and the ones I think won’t happen, do.”

 

[jacobed]

I didn't realize he had Tom Cruise ready to star in it. If Pacific Rim makes it big and Cruise wants to be in the movie, it'll get made. He has some serious pull in Hollywood

 

[dude stannis]

Not to mention this was all before Prometheus. I think now it'll be a lot easier to get a $100 million dollar R rated horror film made.

 

[Boom]

Actually, I'm pretty sure GDT said that Prometheus put the final nail in the coffin for this film. I guess there were too many similarities between the two stories.

 

[Octoberist]

Legendary and WB have the balls, so i can see them green lighting 'Mountains' eventually.

 

[dude stannis]

Actually, I'm pretty sure GDT said that Prometheus put the final nail in the coffin for this film. I guess there were too many similarities between the two stories.

No, he said he thinks Prometheus put the final nail in the coffin. He hasn't seen it.

 

[Octoberist]

He hasn't seen it at the time..rather.

 

[dude stannis]

Yeah, hadn't seen it. Since he's trying to pitch Mountains to Legendary, maybe he has since.

I'm reading the script (I think a pre 2010 revision). So far, so good.