I was checking the main site (to make sure I wouldn't be telling you something you already knew. You did.) and you have confirmed some GREAT NEWS!
I have long been an advocate for this film adaptation being made. Del Toro may well be the man to handle this properly. His use of the word 'epic' makes me shudder with anticipation.
Now, will he do it in the proper timeframe? Or will it be modernised? Keep in mind that Lovecraft's use of places like Antarctica, China and areas in the Pacific were intended to immediately convey a sense of mystery and foreboding. At the time (1931 for AtMoM) these places still represented unexplored and newly discovered places. If the story is set in the present, I fear it will lose it's proper context. This could very well lead to comparisons (which will probably happen anyway) to Carpenter's version of 'The Thing'. Not that that is necessarily a bad thing. But, 'AtMoM' needs to stand on it's own.
Regardless, this is outstanding news!
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"In my tortured ears there sounds unceasingly a nightmare whirring and flapping, and a faint distant baying as of some gigantic hound. It is not dream - it is not, I fear, even madness - for too much has already happened to give me these merciful doubts." - H.P. Lovecraft
I have long been an advocate for this film adaptation being made. Del Toro may well be the man to handle this properly. His use of the word 'epic' makes me shudder with anticipation.
Now, will he do it in the proper timeframe? Or will it be modernised? Keep in mind that Lovecraft's use of places like Antarctica, China and areas in the Pacific were intended to immediately convey a sense of mystery and foreboding. At the time (1931 for AtMoM) these places still represented unexplored and newly discovered places. If the story is set in the present, I fear it will lose it's proper context. This could very well lead to comparisons (which will probably happen anyway) to Carpenter's version of 'The Thing'. Not that that is necessarily a bad thing. But, 'AtMoM' needs to stand on it's own.
Regardless, this is outstanding news!
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"In my tortured ears there sounds unceasingly a nightmare whirring and flapping, and a faint distant baying as of some gigantic hound. It is not dream - it is not, I fear, even madness - for too much has already happened to give me these merciful doubts." - H.P. Lovecraft
