Del Toro: Mountains of Madness to follow Hellboy sequel?

[Horrorfan]

http://uk.movies.ign.com/articles/739/739225p1.html


I really, really hope so. Aside from the silent Call Of cthulhu independent movie, there has been no real GOOD movies based on Lovecraft's work.

Hellboy showed Del Toro can handle Lovecraftian elements, and I truly hope to see this come to fruition.

 

[블라스]

Dear Jesus:

I only ask you for 2 things..

1) A Japanese girlfriend.

2) Please make this true....please

 

[Horrorfan]

I hoped and knew you'd be the first to reply buddy

I posted a topic in misc games where he discusses the hellboy game, which is sounding awesome

 

[블라스]

Let me go there immediatly.

Oh, and another thing...the Stuart Gordon's Lovecraft "adaptations" are HORRIBLE.

"Re-Animator" my ass

 

[Horrorfan]

Let me go there immediatly.

Oh, and another thing...the Stuart Gordon's Lovecraft "adaptations" are HORRIBLE.

"Re-Animator" my ass

I hate those movies so much. They **** all over the great man's work

I really, really don't get how so many people love them. I think they are crappola.

 

[green]

Whens he gonna fit The Witches in?

 

[War Party]

yeah, whatever happened to The Witches?

 

[블라스]

They burned them?

 

[War Party]

They burned them?

haha. But seriously, what's going on with that movie?

 

[GuesssWho]

Someone ought to do a proper The Dunwich Horror . . . And, speaking of Lovecraft, I've been trying to come up with supervillain names for the human bad guys in HPL, like Herbert West and Wilbur Whateley. West could be the Zombie Master, but I can't think of ones for any of the others, like Obed Marsh or anyone. Can any of you?

 

[L0ngsh0t]

Dear Jesus:

I only ask you for 2 things..

1) A Japanese girlfriend.

2) Please make this true....please

haha, kind of specific first one

Del Toro, is fantasy gold, and I haven't even seen this art work he has done for Pan's Labrynth

 

[Rac]

Yeah, I hope this happens too. I'm fan of del Toro and Lovecraft.

 

[Flexo]

Hopefully GdT will get to film, at least, a trailer.

I'm sure the movie'd be amazing, and maybe lead to more Lovecraft films.

http://www.timeout.com/film/news/1548.html

 

[GuesssWho]

/Beyond the Wall of Sleep/ wasn't too bad, for an attempt to film the unfilmable.

 

[Darth Elektra]

Sweet, I would love to see this!

 

[Fanticon]

Since Halo has been placed on hold...I hope that someone will jump at the chance to hire him to direct a God of War adaptation. That would be insane.

 

[War Party]

Since Halo has been placed on hold...I hope that someone will jump at the chance to hire him to direct a God of War adaptation. That would be insane.

What does Halo have anything to do with Del Toro? He was never directing it.

 

[Rac]

What does Halo have anything to do with Del Toro? He was never directing it.

He was in talks for directing it.

 

[War Party]

He was in talks for directing it.

Yeah I know. But they hired a director for Halo already. That guy seems to think Del Toro was attached to the project.

 

[Gonking]

Here is part of an interview where he speaks about the movie, but it's in Spanish so you will have to use a translator.


Hola, Guillermo. Ante todo, expresarte mi admiración porque eres uno de los cineastas más interesantes de la actualidad, además de darte las gracias por darnos alegrías a todos los aficionados al fantástico. Me gustaría preguntarte por tu famoso proyecto de llevar al cine "En las montañas de la locura" de Lovecraft y preguntarte por qué crees que nadie ha sido capaz de trasladar hasta ahora a la pantalla el universo lovecraftiano con fidelidad y con buen resultado, más allá de referencias puntuales. Gracias y suerte con "El laberinto..."
Sí, a mí me parece que hay dos o tres películas que, aunque no son citas puntuales, sí que absorben el espírituo lovecraftiano. Una de ellas es el Alien de Ridley Scott; no tan curiosamente, "La cosa", de John Carpenter y una película polaca que se llama "Posesion". Creo que el sentimiento de "horror cósmico" que desborda sentimiento existencial no es fácil de capturar y forma parte del centro emocional de las historias de Lovecraft. "En las montañas de la locura" es un proyecto muy caro y con un final profundamente infeliz, cosa que no atrae terriblemente a los estudios hollywoodienses. Creo yo que, en ese sentido, el de los monstruos tentaculares, tendremos una agradable sorpresa en el "Halo" que produce Peter Jackson.

http://www.elmundo.es/encuentros/invitados/2006/10/2192/

 

[Kevin Roegele]

yeah, whatever happened to The Witches?

The Witches is great (and the current film is awful), but Lovecraft comes first.

 

[Fanticon]

I guess I never got past this tid bit and looked over the fact that they did end up picking a director.
http://comingsoon.net/news/halonews.php?id=12304

dang, WP don't be so on edge all the time.

I was merely commenting on the fact that he's being so sought after lately especially after Pan's Labrynth, that he could do anything he wants after HB2...and someone should throw GoW his way...he'd be a good choice. And also the original poster of this thread mentioned he's doing Call Of cthulhu...which was an HP Lovecraft adapted video game.

 

[War Party]

I guess I never got past this tid bit and looked over the fact that they did end up picking a director.
http://comingsoon.net/news/halonews.php?id=12304

dang, WP don't be so on edge all the time.

I was merely commenting on the fact that he's being so sought after lately especially after Pan's Labrynth, that he could do anything he wants after HB2...and someone should throw GoW his way...he'd be a good choice.

I am not on edge. I was just simply pointing out that Del Toror wasn't connected with Halo. Sorry if I sounded rude.

 

[GuesssWho]

SO glad I'm not the only person here who knows about Lovecraft . . .