At The Mountains Of Madness, del Toro and Universal

[Vivek]

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Universal may not be the best studio in the world, but they will always remain my favourite. Cause thanks to them and Spielberg, Back to the Future got green lighted after every other studio rejected the script from Zemeckis and Gale. And since they released and believed in Scott Pilgrim last year, they are still in my good books.

I hope to catch up on the Lovecraft books soon. And somehow I feel this movie is going to get made eventually without compromising on del Toro's original vision for the film.

 

[IndyFanChuck]

I DONT agree with Universal at all. I think del Toro's version would be a masterpiece.

Just my opinion. But I HOPE HOPE HOPE this movie gets made. HOPE



HOPE!

 

[NoTsOsErIoUs]

Totally unsurprised at this. It's just what we should all come to expect far more of in future. Stretch Armstrong!?!? For gawds sake. Who will save the sane?

 

[SmilingOtter]

I don't get the PG-13/R argument. The two lead characters learn of the massacre of the rest of the team after the fact. Showing it happen really wouldn't be Lovecraft's style. That would just leave language, drug use, or nudity to give it an R rating, none of which were in the story.

 

[Wes R]

This doesn't shock me at all. All the game/toy franchises are Hasbro just like GI Joe and Transformers, they probably signed a deal to get the rights to a ton of these things and are going to make them cheaply enough that they can't help but turn a profit and do we really need another Mission Impossible?

 

[Vivek]

Guillermo Del Toro Says PROMETHEUS Has Nixed AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS
Thanks to Universal.

 

[SmilingOtter]

Bleah. I want a big budget, well made Lovecraft movie.

 

[rashielx]

So sad to see this isn't getting made. I'm excited to see Prometheus but I've waited so long for a really well made Lovecraft flick.

 

[blipper]

You have to wonder at Del Toro's lack of vision here. The earliest scraps of Prometheus pointed to a play on AtMoM, Alien was a play on AtMoM and The Thing also. I don't see the problem, there's still a decent Mountains movie to be made.
To be honest though I wanted someone other than Del Toro to do it anyway.

 

[TheDoctor]

GOOD! I, for one, am GLAD this isn't being made.

Here were my original reactions:

An HP Lovecraft movie being made? :cool
It's going to be "At the Mountains of Madness"?
Del Toro?? :love
Wait... in 3D? :facepalm
Tom Cruise?? :confused
He wants to SHOW the horror as it happens???? :cry

Yeah, thankfully it's the sane heads that prevailed this time around. The more I think about it, the less I want Del Toro anywhere near HP Lovecraft's stuff. Lovecraft made his living by selling the sizzle, not the bacon - and that's not Del Toro.

 

[CB2001]

Bleah. I want a big budget, well made Lovecraft movie.

Well, how about a low budget, very-well-made Lovercraft movie instead? This one I definitely recommend. You can read more about the film here (it's even been referred to as the best HPL adaptation to date). And, to put it in high regard, it was made the old-school way.

 

[gobler]

Also the same group made "Whisper in the Darkness" another good HPL story. It was very well done. One of my and my wife's (who is also a fan of Lovecraft) fantasies if we ever won an insanely large some of money 200+ mil; would be to write and direct a faithful adaptation to Shadow over Insmouth....


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[SmilingOtter]

Well, how about a low budget, very-well-made Lovercraft movie instead? This one I definitely recommend. You can read more about the film here (it's even been referred to as the best HPL adaptation to date). And, to put it in high regard, it was made the old-school way.

I picked that up at Dragon Con a few years ago, and it holds a place of honor in my DVD collection. (Which coincidentally happens to be right between Brotherhood of the Wolf and Charlie's Angels.)

 

[CB2001]

Also the same group made "Whisper in the Darkness" another good HPL story. It was very well done. One of my and my wife's (who is also a fan of Lovecraft) fantasies if we ever won an insanely large some of money 200+ mil; would be to write and direct a faithful adaptation to Shadow over Insmouth....

I've been meaning to see if I could watch that one. I saw the trailer for it, which seems quite impressive. Though I know you think you need 200+ Million to make Shadow Over Innsmouth, but maybe you should consider the possibility of making the film the same way the HPLHS did. I mean, they probably didn't even spend a whole lot just to make it. But you never know, I could very well be wrong.

I picked that up at Dragon Con a few years ago, and it holds a place of honor in my DVD collection. (Which coincidentally happens to be right between Brotherhood of the Wolf and Charlie's Angels.)

I got mine back in 2006/2007 while I was attending Florida State University. I picked it up used at a store called Vinyl Fever, which was a store that sold CDs, tapes, LPs, DVDs and VHSs (they closed down sometime within the past two years, which sucks, because they were an awesome store). I have it as a part of my collection too, and I'm glad of it.

 

[Noeland]

I think that's a bunch of crapola. Blaming an unreleased film for your own project folding just seems petty and silly to me. It also seems to me that the project was dead in the water long before Prometheus was around.

I think he's just trying to get some press for it in a half ass attempt to get the project some interest again.

 

[Crippen]

According to IMDB. Mr. Del Toro's next two movies are Pacific Rim, then Pinocchio.

Personally I'd like to see him tackle a H.P. Lovecraft story one day. There's plenty of other great H.P.L. stories out there, if Mountains isn't going to work.

Dave

 

[gobler]

Well, for some reason I missed the post below... Carry on.

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[Kerr Avon]

Guillermo Del Toro Says PROMETHEUS Has Nixed AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS
Thanks to Universal.

That just pisses me off more, with how ****ty Prometheus was. :darnkids

 

[MooCriket]

In all fairness, it can still be made. Different sides to each coin, look at Deep Impact and Armaggedon. I'm sure if done well, ATMOM can eclipse Prometheus. The issue I think is finding a studio willing to spend the cash.

 

[Jedi2016]

Not with the script I saw. It was absolute garbage, and Prometheus has far more in common with ATMOM than Del Toro's script did.