Well I’ll be (hopefully) damned!
With Mama creeping towards release and thus microphones creeping back in front of producer Guillermo Del Toro, the director has been letting loose words about all manner of subjects. Interestingly he today let Indiewire in on his plans to repackage At The Mountains Of Madness –complete with leading man Tom Cruise’s continued involvement– and take it back on the studio rounds. He doesn’t mention how that would fit into his obligations to Legendary with Crimson Peak, just that he’s going to test the waters once more…
“I’m going to try it one more time. Once more into the dark abyss. We’re gonna do a big presentation of the project again at the start of the year and see if anyone’s interested… Tom is still attached. I think it would be so fantastic to make it with him. He’s been such a great ally of the project.”
You may recall that Del Toro’s last decree on the subject was that Ridley Scott’s Prometheus may have rendered the film effectively redundant, at least for the time being. It would seem that upon actually seeing Scott’s film, Del Toro walked away convinced that actually wasn’t that case! Whether that’s because he didn’t feel the overlap was that great or because the film itself wasn’t that great is not entirely clear, but regardless he’s reattaching his climbing gear and setting off for the mountain once again.
“I saw it finally and.. yes, there are things in common, but, you know, screw it. Lovecraft was there first.”
Word. I’m still waiting for my terrifying, beautiful R-rated dread epic.
This is very pleasant news, and one hopes (and I’m rather confident) that Pacific Rim is well on its way towards being a big blockbuster hit for the director, proving once and for all that he can play to the big crowds. Will that open the doors to the icy world of Lovecraft for Del Toro at long last? Xirdneth willing.
P.S. Del Toro also updated us on the state of the Hulk TV show, which is to say there’s nothing on. A brief meeting about a writer after the release of The Avengers has given way to no discernable progress, according to the director.
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Damn right Del Toro. We fanboys will have our goddamn cake and this time we will get to eat it too. Giant penguins dammit!!
Give us some tentacle love, Del Toro. You know we want it.
Excellent news. Prometheus sucked so much ass it created a global fecal shortage. The movie has been panned in almost every possible way but I just have to say … a xenomorph with vegetarian teeth and a rhino spike on its head is one gigantic FAIL.
Bringing the Mythos into the mainstream is long overdue and Del Toro is obviously the man for the job. Tekeli-li!
Yes, Virginia, there is a Cthulhu.
It’s times like this that I’m glad that I don’t share so many people’s hatred for Tom Cruise.
The stars have aligned.
I was just bemoaning this being in development hell. So pumped to hear he’s pushing for it again! Cruise would be distracting, in my opinion, but maybe his madness could be utilized for Del Toro’s nightmare. I guess with a story where the guy goes crazy at the end, you might as well start off with a crazy dude. Oh, and hi Renn, this is Liam, I met you at Gleb’s.
I’m excited by this news – at the same time I’m wondering how he’d approach the source material, it’s not exactly action packed. I assume he’d show some of the early attacks as opposed to just having the explorers find the bodies.
This has a good chance to have a Thing-ish feel to it, which would be great. The sequence where the plane flies into the ancient city would make for some fantastic visuals.
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If he really sticks to the source material this will be a great film but I have a feeling they’ll throw in explorers fighting monsters with pick axes, always some lame action to make sure the movie looks like every other movie out there. That’s the pessimist in me, I really want to believe this will be the first true Lovecraft movie which will require a very serious tone and hideous creature design which sorta sucks cause Del Toro likes comic booky looking type shit. Either way, I’ve been interested in this for a long time.
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