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"At the Mountains of Madness" - Guillermo Del Toro & James Cameron Collaborate
Inky Binky
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Director Guillermo Del Toro (Mimic, Hellboy 1 & 2, Blade 2, Pan's Labyrinth) has wanted to make this film for years. I knew it was going to happen eventually but having James Cameron (Aliens, Avatar) onboard to produce the film was a huge surprise. The film will be in 3-D and they start filming next summer: LINK
For those who never heard of it: 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.
For those who never heard of it: 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.
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I'm not the biggest Lovecraft fan, but there's so much potential for a great movie to be made from this story, especially with those two involved!
Mind you, the creatures could either end up looking really creepy ... or just goofy. I wonder if they'll keep the mutant penguins?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/mar/09/guillermo-del-toro-mountains-madness
http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/guillermo-del-toro-says-hes-prepared-to-do-at-the-mountains-of-madness-as-pg-13-now-20140704
Don't bother. Let the tweenies watch their own crap.
No way they'd ever make a big budget hard R or 18 movie of this; WB tried with Watchmen and it was considered a disappointment in money making terms.
The story is hardly full of violence and gore, Lovecraft is mostly psychological horror, it could easily be done as a PG-13.
I would HIGHLY recommend the Radio4 Extra version of ATMOM, superbly read by Richard Coyle. On YouTube no doubt. For anyone doubting that Del Toro can pull it off, listen to this and remember it`s radio and it went out at tea-time and it`s bloody chilling!
Disappointment? It made a loss, before you factor marketing and all the lawsuits in, however they were able to squeeze a lot from home video...
Big budget hard R films don't really work, the last two I can think of that made money were Wanted (loosely based on the Mark Millar comic) and The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (adapted from the Steig Larson novel). Dredd is a film everybody seems to like (I appear to be one of the only people that has any reservations on it.), but they still won't make a sequel because it made a big loss...
And given Pacific Rim's recent scrape, will anybody actually be willing to give him a tonne of money for a "cult" book adaptation?