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Del Toro's Next Is ACTUALLY 'Mountains of Madness'
Source: Deadline, Coming Soon Though Guillermo del Toro thrilled Comic-Con audiences with the news that he'd be making horror his primary focus with Disney's The Haunted Mansion, apparently that project will take a back seat to an adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's At The Mountains of Madness, says Deadline.
The trade states that the adaptation, which centers on a gruesome discovery made during a scientific expedition to the South Pole in the 1930s that hints at the true origin of mankind having come from elder gods from another planet, will be shot in 3D for Universal Pictures - and that dimensional bending extraordinaire James Cameron will produce the project.
Del Toro and producers Susan Montford and Don Murphy have been developing the film for years now, and given the auteur's sizable overall deal with Universal (which began in 2007 when the studio took the rights to Hellboy from Sony for Del Toro to make his sequel), it's now a big ticket product.
We're told that the film will go into pre-production shortly, but won't be shooting until next summer for an assumed 2012 release. On the size of the movie compared to most horror films produced these days, del Toro says: "The studio sees horror movies as something they will not invest more than $30-40 million. 'Mountains of Madness' needs to be tentpole in the way that the tentpole movies of the past were, about $130 million."
Tags: at the mountains of madness, comic con, don murphy, guillermo del toro, james cameron, movie news, sdcc, susan montford, the haunted mansion
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Comment by Devin on August 1, 2010 at 9:50pm - Hell yeah son. I've recently been getting into Lovecraft's work more and more. This tale is actually next on my list.
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Comment by Phillip K Slick on August 1, 2010 at 3:07am - This man's talent is going to waste, I hope something gets into production soon
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Comment by Delane Baker on July 31, 2010 at 10:06pm - Not sure about Cameron writing but Del Toro directing IS FUCKING AWSOME!!!!!!!
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Comment by I AM DEAD / pls dont shoot on July 31, 2010 at 1:42pm - H. P. Lovecraft? Good match for Del Toro methinks.
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Comment by ZombieMan on July 31, 2010 at 12:36am - It would have Cthullu? or whatever the hell is spelled ?
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Comment by Gift of the Magi on July 30, 2010 at 7:25am -
The bad news is that I bet dollars to donuts that 75-85% of this film...if done...will be CGI.
Now Fungus me boy, I'm right with you. As of now, del Toro is the ONLY person I would want to helm this. Realistically I'm not that hopeful that it will be done...and how in the BLUE FUCK are you going to get the giant evil mutant penguins across the audience (read the book, kids) is beyond me.
But if this film is anything less than R (and gods help us if they snag a NC-17 rating! NERDGASM!!!!) then it's not worth doing. Lovecraft is one of my favorite writer, so I do hope IF they try this they do it right the first time (and we don't have a Dune-ish rolling number of failed attempts).
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Comment by Jon, Chicago's Mindfreak on July 29, 2010 at 8:30pm -
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Comment by Slumdog Brandon on July 29, 2010 at 7:52pm - Del Toro and Cameron movie sounds good to me.
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Comment by Don Panini on July 29, 2010 at 7:28pm - Jeez, I´m not sure if a Lovecraft book would actually translate well cinematicaly.
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Comment by bloodsarover on July 29, 2010 at 3:39pm - I'm more interested in the fact that Universal is making an apparently huge budget Lovecraft movie. That could (emphasis on could) be pretty awesome.
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