Legendary and Guillermo Del Toro are getting increasingly cozy. Just as the director is wrapping duties on Pacific Rim, he’s now committing to tackling this Crimson Peak for the company as well. According to Deadline, Peak‘s being positioned as a haunted house ghost story. According to the filmmaker:
“…a very set-oriented, classical but at the same time modern take on the ghost story. It will allow me to play with the conventions of the genre I know and love, and at the same time subvert the old rules.”
Del Toro goes on to cite The Haunting, The Innocents, The Omen and Exorcist as influences for the new film. It goes unmentioned in Deadline’s piece, but it seems like this project would effectively render The Haunted Mansion, a Disney reboot which was supposed to involve Del Toro, tits up.
The brilliant director also suggests his burgeoning relationship with Legendary may bear new fruits as it pertains to his long laboring At the Mountains of Madness take, a project that once included heavyweights named Cruise and Cameron.
I’ll never bemoan the arrival of a new Del Toro joint, but if we could maybe backburner Peak and get to stepping on At the Mountains of Madness finally, that would be swell.
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I just really wish he’d been able to make The Hobbit instead of Peter Jackson — it would’ve been more of a separate entity (and probably a much more interesting take on the story) than just another hit for The Franchise.
I agree with biff…it would have been its own thing…with Freeman in the franchise, it would have been very interesting…especially since that ship and Pacific Rim are all coming together at the same time…This project sounds interesting, of course I am always skepitical when a director has to mention “influences” on any project-this could be interesting. Of course, he has already done haunted house movies before-both Backbone and Labrynth where essentially the kinds of films he is talking of. This film could maybe be a great, “do not go behind the door” type of film- a secret power or force that should not be opened. Now I want to make that…hopefully it will be better then the extremely disapointing Dont’ be Afraid
Not that I actually expected anything of it, but after the Hellboy 3 talk a few months back, I was really, really, really, really, really hoping it might have been his next project after Pacific Rim. But, if this means we’ll eventually get ATMOM, then I’ll take what I can get.
Didn’t he say something along the lines of Prometheus stole ATMOM’s thunder? Maybe now that Prometheus was an R rated hit, Legendary are more inclined to investigate Mountains.
I find myself hoping that, after seeing Prometheus, he found himself thinking there was still room for his take on the whole idea of ancient, alien beings who created humanity and also that he felt he could do it better.
No, that is impossible. He’s good but Ridley Scott is the master. And Prometheus is a modern classic. That is indisputable.
Most of the internet would dispute it. I saw it three times, but it’s all setup. Let’s see what he does with Paradise (which I’m thinking *is* the Blade Runner sequel).
rrriiigggghhhtttt…..If Prometheus is a modern classic than my post right here is set to change the internet…FOREVER.
Also, Ridley Scott, once again, blows….
Does being a dumb cunt come naturally to you, or does it take practice? Here are a few facts for you to nibble on: 74% fresh rating on RT. $400m ww (how many R rated movies do that kind of business?). Record blu ray sales. Sequel in the works. Oh, and Ebert gave it four stars. He knows something about movies.
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