Guillermo del Toro's At the Mountains of Madness - H.P. Lovecraft
 

No one's been talking about Guillarmos del Toro's next big project after the second Hellboy movie, a film he describes will be his "epic horror movie" starring Ron Perlman *you know it*, based upon HP Lovecraft's novella "At the Mountains of Madness" by the same title.

go here http://www.deltorofilms.com/ProjectPage.php?projectid=9 to find as much information there is to find on the film.

Del Toro doing Lovecraft sounds good to me. VERY good. :)

Sounds good to me as well, could be great even.

im looking forward already... thanks for the info

Ummmm
 

Director John Carpenter's Lovecraftian tribute movie In the Mouth of Madness (1995) bases its title on this story, although the plot is unrelated.

Director Guillermo Del Toro has written a screenplay based on Lovecraft's story, but as of 2006 has had trouble getting Warner Brothers to finance the project. Wrote Del Toro, "The studio is very nervous about the cost and it not having a love story or a happy ending, but it's impossible to do either in the Lovecraft universe."[16]

This is one of the best Lovecraft stories ever. I love the story. Its nasty, cosmic, can be thought of as a precursor to John Carpenter's The Thing but should it be a movie? The short answer is.. No.

If anyone can make this work, it's GDT. He grows stronger as an artist with each outing.

stuart gordon had tried to make this but could never get the financing he needed.

I would see this in a heartbeat.... Del Toro does beautiful work.


I know many, if not most people here are STuart Gordon fans, but I think he is partially responsible for there being no good Lovecraft movies. He has enthusiasm, but he lacks the feel of Lovecraft's atmosphere.

At least GDT has the balls to stay true to Lovecraft... I have not read this tale of his, but I do like Lovecraft. Count me in...

There’s a script review floating around of one draft of Guillermo del Toro and Matthew Robbin’s script for At the Mountains of Madness. The review was useful for pointing out a few statements that producer James Cameron recently made about the film, where, among other things, he claims that it could be a film on the scale of something like Aliens.

Cameron told Wired that At the Mountains of Madness is

If you’re really curious about the script review, which comes from the point of view of a hardcore fan of H.P. Lovecraft’s source novel, then you can read it here -

http://templeofghoul.blogspot.com/20...pt-review.html

The key points are that the script is summed up as “like a HELLBOY movie without Hellboy, with a light dose of Carpenter’s THE THING,” and said to be “not as bleak as Lovecraft’s novel or Carpenter’s film [In the Mouth of Madness] which was vaguely inspired by the spirit of this same novel.”

Well, for one thing- Lovecraft DID describe his creatures. That's part of his powers as a writer- that he could take such rediculous sounding creatures and make you afraid of them.

And "not as bleak as the novel?" Why bother?

In July, we reported the exciting news that Guillermo del Toro would finally be making his long-in-development passion project At the Mountains of Madness with James Cameron producing and in 3D.

Sources have now told us that Universal wants James McAvoy to play the lead in the film, but del Toro wants Tom Cruise to star. Chris Pine’s name was also being tossed around, but his busy schedule may be too packed.

We know that Cruise and del Toro probably met before when discussing the possibility of a new take on Van Helsing with Cruise to star and del Toro producing. That didn’t work out, but del Toro must have left with a positive impression of the actor. Here's the synopsis of At the Mountains of Madness and a refresher on what both Cruise and McAvoy have on their plates -

When del Toro was interviewed at the Saturn Awards in June, the award-winning director said it was unlikely that At the Mountains of Madness would be his next project due to various factors. Thankfully, those obstacles were overcome and production on the film (which will be shot in 3D) is set to begin in May 2011.

McAvoy is about to start filming on Matthew Vaughn’s X-Men: First Class where he’ll play the young Professor Charles Xavier (aka Professor X). He’s also attached to co-star in Tom Tykwer’s adaptation of David Mitchell’s novel Cloud Atlas.

As for Cruise, he starts shooting on the fourth Mission: Impossible in October. He’s also planning to star in a Tropic Thunder-spinoff movie about uber-mogul Les Grossman.

With filming not scheduled to begin for almost a year, there’s plenty of time to get casting sorted out.

Frustrating...:mad:

More details on: Deadline.com

Originally, I thought this would never get off the ground but lately it looked like it might actually happen...til this :(

All we have to look forward to is Tyler Perry's upcoming The Horror at Redhook.

Noooooooooo I can't believe it im utterly gutted

In my life there is no movie I've wanted to see more than this story. I don't care if I have to wait another couple years.

Guillermo del Toro's Sketchbook Reveals 'Mountains of Madness' Concept Art

It seems less and less likely that Guillermo del Toro's long-awaited film adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's novella At the Mountains of Madness will become a reality... which makes it even more heartbreaking to see some of the amazing concepts the director had in mind for his dream project.

http://io9.com/guillermo-del-toros-s...tai-1150795662