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Guillermo Del Toro to make H.P. Lovecraft's AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS!!!










Hey folks, Harry here... On and around December 22nd of last year, Guillermo Del Toro and I were hanging out in the AICN screening room talking about dream projects. You see, Peter Jackson's LORD OF THE RINGS: FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING had just opened to resounding financial and critical success.

The conversation quickly turned to the movies, above all others, we would love to see get made... or to make. A lull in the conversation sat in after we talked of HELLBOY and MEPHISTO'S BRIDGE... a pair of Guillermo's dreams, when I suddenly blurted out.... "You know what you should make Guillermo?"

"What Gordo?" Guillermo intoned.

"You should make H.P. Lovecraft's AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS!!!"










Guillermo screamed with agreement and shock at me. Turns out that he had begun work two days prior in trying to secure the rights to AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS and that it was going to be "My Lord of the RIngs!" His passionate work that he'd spend years to bring to life.

AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS is my favorite work of H.P. Lovecraft. The fossil expedition into the interior of the Antarctic peaks... The discovery of that door... The ruins, the bones of things not natural... The artifacts... The City.... The Old Ones! This is horror. This story by H.P. Lovecraft is horror writing at its absolute pinnacle.

I first read AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS years ago when I thought John Carpenter was making it, turned out he was making Michael Deluca's IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS... which definitely had Lovecraftian overtones. And strangely enough, it looks like Deluca is going to be bringing this to life over at DREAMWORKS.

I'm not sure if that's the right studio. I hope they let Guillermo make the film he will make. That they give him the same freedoms to create his dream work, as New Line did with Peter Jackson on his. Folks, this could be a full fledged masterpiece.... Now join hands and pray to Cthulhu










Blade II" director Guillermo del Toro is negotiating with DreamWorks to direct "At the Mountains of Madness," an adaptation of the H.P. Lovecraft novel, reports Variety. Del Toro will write the script also.

If that is true, fuck Hellboy! I want to see a GOOD Lovecraft adaptation NOW!

I expect a long column on the matter on your awesome site.

Greetings from Spain

Singal








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hell's yeah
by Eryndur
Mar 26th, 2002
01:09:36 PM
Not First!
by Brakkart
Mar 26th, 2002
01:09:49 PM
go del toro go!
by MonkeyDonut
Mar 26th, 2002
01:10:47 PM
Sea of Glass
by wovvee
Mar 26th, 2002
01:17:58 PM
The best Lovecraft adaption so far has been...
by RenoNevada2000
Mar 26th, 2002
01:23:44 PM
I squwash Elfkiller for his FIRST posting, LOTR hating ways
by exPFCWintergreen
Mar 26th, 2002
01:31:42 PM
THE THING was so good, no need of another version
by VincentSpain
Mar 26th, 2002
01:41:30 PM
the Mountains of Madness is good but...
by csk360
Mar 26th, 2002
01:56:17 PM
do hellboy first!
by 2vic
Mar 26th, 2002
02:09:35 PM
The 1000 projects of Guillermo del Toro
by godoffireinhell
Mar 26th, 2002
02:11:01 PM
Please (Elder) god please!!!!
by Psynapse
Mar 26th, 2002
02:13:36 PM
lovecraft was a sick fuck
by Aronld Scazziger
Mar 26th, 2002
02:14:46 PM
HELLBOY, DAMMIT, HELLBOY!
by superhero
Mar 26th, 2002
02:15:59 PM
Another vote for SHADOW OVER INNSOUMOUTH
by SCOTT1458
Mar 26th, 2002
02:20:46 PM
HELLBOY!!!
by dwimmerlaik
Mar 26th, 2002
02:41:17 PM
HELL FUCKING YES!!!
by Z-Man
Mar 26th, 2002
02:42:04 PM
Unlike many of Lovecraft
by godoffireinhell
Mar 26th, 2002
02:57:08 PM
Ia! Cthulhu ftagn!
by rev_skarekroe
Mar 26th, 2002
03:01:48 PM
This won
by godoffireinhell
Mar 26th, 2002
03:09:12 PM
Lovecraft is great.. but... Blade 2... sucked
by BrianSlade
Mar 26th, 2002
03:18:15 PM
Within the Walls???
by godoffireinhell
Mar 26th, 2002
03:20:48 PM
wooow....lovecraft is great
by drjones
Mar 26th, 2002
03:25:41 PM
Maybe Del Toro's the only director who would take the materi
by Cash Bailey
Mar 26th, 2002
03:36:04 PM
When I was sitting around name-dropping...
by hudsucker
Mar 26th, 2002
03:53:29 PM
Sorry, must differ with Brianslade..
by Sepulchrave
Mar 26th, 2002
04:03:55 PM
The power is rooted in his endless repetitions, his spit-flecked
by SCOTT1458
Mar 26th, 2002
04:24:26 PM
Fun Guy from Yoggoth
by Buck Teeth Soh
Mar 26th, 2002
04:26:17 PM
Creature Corner
by LeeScoresby
Mar 26th, 2002
04:34:02 PM
Chimps with Guns + Pneumatic Nazis = Box Office Smash!!!
by godoffireinhell
Mar 26th, 2002
04:49:39 PM
Yessss
by EmperorCaligula
Mar 26th, 2002
05:04:04 PM
HP a bad writer?
by kingbailey
Mar 26th, 2002
05:44:07 PM
More details about the "At the Mountains of Madness" film
by godoffireinhell
Mar 26th, 2002
05:45:18 PM
I am as confused as you, ED 209
by godoffireinhell
Mar 26th, 2002
06:09:16 PM
Gordo is Spanish for "Fat"
by superhero
Mar 26th, 2002
06:15:19 PM
Now PLEASE DON'T UPDATE THE SETTING TO MODERN DAY!
by Smeg For Brains
Mar 26th, 2002
07:19:22 PM
If TDB is any indication
by Guitar Wolf
Mar 26th, 2002
07:58:42 PM
link to 'at the mountains of madness'
by butteredelkmeat
Mar 26th, 2002
08:02:52 PM
LOVECRAFT IN HIS TIME
by Weasel
Mar 26th, 2002
08:45:49 PM
Wonderful News
by NerdBird
Mar 26th, 2002
09:23:05 PM
butteredelkmeat, you're a champ!
by Cash Bailey
Mar 26th, 2002
10:21:36 PM
Unfortunately, "Mountains" is probably my LEAST favorite Lovecra
by St Buggering
Mar 27th, 2002
01:58:36 AM
Hell yeah!
by Blake Falls
Mar 27th, 2002
04:06:03 AM
Mountains of Tedium!!!!
by Scarecrow_
Mar 27th, 2002
04:59:12 AM
Shadow Over Innsmouth
by Wild At Heart
Mar 27th, 2002
09:29:58 AM
Doesn't Hellboy already rip off this story?
by Wesley Snipes
Mar 27th, 2002
09:30:51 AM
ATMOM
by Severian67
Mar 27th, 2002
11:57:19 AM
May It Be So!
by LewisWetzel
Mar 27th, 2002
12:22:28 PM
Saddest moment of my childhood . . .
by Poetamelie
Mar 27th, 2002
01:25:27 PM
What I want to see
by Unlisted Error
Mar 27th, 2002
06:44:56 PM
HPL Was Madder Than A Sackful of Badgers
by Boxcutter
Mar 27th, 2002
07:02:13 PM
St Buggering: "It's long, slow, dull, and without event unt
by Pops Freshemeyer
Mar 27th, 2002
08:26:51 PM
LOVECRAFTIAN
by TomVee
Mar 27th, 2002
09:41:10 PM
Cash Bailey: you're welcome.
by butteredelkmeat
Mar 28th, 2002
12:22:20 AM
Lovecraft is GOD!
by TheAtarisFan
Mar 28th, 2002
09:34:45 AM
Here we bloody well go again...
by Shai-Hulud
Mar 28th, 2002
10:51:03 AM
Coming close to HPL
by Buck Teeth Soh
Mar 28th, 2002
11:21:51 AM
Whena re we gonna get some Unnamable DVDs?
by dvdemons
Mar 28th, 2002
01:55:38 PM
Right with ya on the Dunsany, SpacePerv...
by Shai-Hulud
Mar 28th, 2002
09:17:02 PM
Dreamquest and Dunsany
by Buck Teeth Soh
Mar 28th, 2002
11:06:48 PM
H.P. Lovecraft (the bad writer)
by kingink123
Mar 29th, 2002
01:10:03 AM
it's an Elder Thing...
by scrofula
Mar 29th, 2002
08:54:01 AM
Sepulchrave
by HeeHeeHee
Mar 30th, 2002
02:10:20 PM
Can't help waiting!
by LexP
Dec 2nd, 2002
05:36:09 AM

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