I
always love it when the technology content I follow intersects with
movie content, and so I couldn’t help but get excited to see James
Cameron discussing At The Mountains of Madness with WIRED,
in an interview that shouldn’t stir up quite as much shit.
Unfortunately there isn’t much in the way of new info, though there’s the comforting feeling that Cameron gets
Del Toro, and has a clear understanding of what role he can play that
will best serve the film. Cameron has never been shy about his distaste
for producing, so it took something special to energize him into taking
that position.
“Well,
yeah, then Guillermo came along… In this particular case,
I’m working with Guillermo because I enjoy his company, and a
creative collaboration is something that we’ve talked about
doing for a long time.”
“Guillermo
brings an eye for design that is so original and so quirky and so
steeped in the lore of movie design and horror design, but always fresh
and unexpected. Frankly, I just want to see what he comes up with and I
want to enable the nuts and bolts of the production so he
doesn’t have to worry about that. I want to help him how to
work in 3-D.”
The
other welcome implication is that this will indeed be an appropriately
large scale film, and a memorable entry in tentpole horror.
It’s
going to be an epically scaled horror film and we haven’t
seen anything like that in a really long time — I guess since
Aliens.”
“The
thing about Lovecraft is that he left a lot to the
imagination… He never told you what they looked like. He
managed to create a sense of creeping horror without
specifics.”
I
hope this collaboration of resources and inspiration manages to fulfill
its promise. I can’t imagine genre fans are going to be able to witness
this kind of thing very often. That’s as far as the details go on ATMOM, but if you’re still not up on the multi-tiered release of Avatar as well as Cameron’s plans for the novel and sequels, check out the rest of the story on WIRED.
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Yes, Cameron is a twat, even he knows it, but if this gets off the ground, then i'll consider him slightly less of a twat.
The prick can't compare this movie to anything else since his own Aliens? What a spooge smuggler.
***“The thing about Lovecraft is that he left a lot to the imagination… He never told you what they looked like. He managed to create a sense of creeping horror without specifics.”***
Cameron has obviously never read any Lovecraft, the liar.
I know this is beating a horse skeleton with a dead baby seal but this guy is a dick…a talented dick who thinks he is the only person on earth that "gets" 3D…dick.
Fuck you Mr Cameron. So you think you're the only person who can help Del Toro "work" 3D? You think Aliens is the only horror film that's worth a shit? Fuck you and your shitty films. Maybe if we all focus our thoughts his submersible will explode on his next dive. Worth a try.
Back off haters, Big Jim can't help it if you don't "get" him — he doesn't have to get you since he has people to count his Titanic money since Avatar happened. I'm just thrilled for Guillermo — mebbe Big Jim can hornswaggle his way into the Hobbit flick and let del Toro do his thing there, too.
The script takes plenty of liberties with the source material. It's almost non-stop action with monsters getting shotgunned and blown to high heaven with dynamite left and right. I doubt Lovecraft purist will be happy with the adaptation but I can understand that you simply can't make a big budget studio film and have scientists just exploring buildings for half an hour. The main reason why I want to see this anyway is because the world needs more gigantic albino penguins.
While I, too, was initially appalled at Cameron saying Aliens was the last BIG horror movie, I'm kind of inclined to agree? I mean, I'm having a heard time thinking of something that compares in scale. Anybody got any suggestions?
That's weird – I never saw Aliens as a horror film, which is why I think it's such a succesful sequel. I always kind of saw it as a war film. Anyway, big epic horror films? I know it's a remake but Dawn of the Dead is pretty epic in scale.
I'm having a hard time naming an "epic horror" that's been done since "Aliens". Even Raimi said that "Army of darkness" isn't really horror, and the '98 "Godzilla" really sucked. Maybe "Jurassic Park"? "Cloverfield"? The '04 "Dawn of the Dead"? Is anyone trying to put these movies in the same league as "Aliens"?
James Cameron never said that he had a copyright on 3D, but rather that the makers of PIRANHA 3D didn't use it to its full potential. And after seeing (and greatly enjoying) PIRANHA 3D, I have to say that I actually side with Cameron. The movie was very fun (that was never the complaint), but the post-3D effects looked flat and jarring – nothing like the depth of real 3D seen in AVATAR and MY BLOODY VALENTINE 3D.
“The thing about Lovecraft is that he left a lot to the imagination… He never told you what they looked like. He managed to create a sense of creeping horror without specifics.” Huh. So Cameron is producing a big-budget 3-D adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's longest single work, At the Mountains of Madness, without having read the actual story. Jesus. I love del Toro and all, but he's capable of sucking, and he's capable of mowing over the spirit of the author's source material and in so doing losing the appeal of the work all together (for examples of both, see Hellboy 2). I love the original story (which describes the monsters in scientific detail in a three-page autopsy report by the way, for Christ's sake, Cameron) but I do believe this will disappoint fans of H.P.L. completely. I wish del Toro would just stick to more personal work like Devil's Backbone.
"….we haven't seen anything like that in a really long time- I guess since Aliens." Which just happens to be his film. This guy can't stop plugging his own shit, even if it came out 25 years ago!!! Self-obsessed prick. I believe Cameron has fans, look at how much money his shitty movies make, but no one is as big of a fan of his work as himself.
DAGON was a pretty damn good solid horror movie that never got a US theater run, From Beyond? Reanimator? I think all three of these Gordon/Yuzna films are better than Aliens.
"Modesty forbids". A phrase that does not exist in James Cameron's vocabulary.
I'm the biggest DAGON fan in the world but in no way is it an "epically scaled horror film" like Cameron was talking about.
Wow, when did it become cool to hate James Cameron? Is this still backlash from the melodrama of Titanic? Sure he's up himself, but he also made 3 of the greatest sci-fi action flicks of all time – Terminator, T2 and Aliens – as well as the two highest grossing films of all time. If anyone has earned their hubris, it's Big Jim. Anyhoo… the problem with Lovecraft and the reason many of his cosmic horrors weren't explicitly described is because they were so horrific and ancient that they could drive a man insane. I love GdT, but I seriously doubt he can drive audiences insane with horror at his creature designs. Although it'd be pretty great if they managed to come up with Insane-o-vision, or something along those lines.
-@ Col. Glen Manning"I love del Toro and all, but he's capable of sucking, and he's capable of mowing over the spirit of the author's source material and in so doing losing the appeal of the work all together (for examples of both, see Hellboy 2)." Are you serious? Name one movie that Del Toro directed that sucked, and it's still better than just about anything else in the genre in more ways than one. And really? Hellboy 2 was worse than the comic it was created from??? Are you sure you watched the same movie as everyone else???
#17 So what if he made some great movies, a little humility never hurt anyone. To hell with this douchebag, no mere film director or anyone in the entertainment industry deserves to have the ego that he has. Until he cures cancer or finds a way to eliminate the horrid after taste of drinking orange juice after brushing your teeth, he needs to knock that bullshit off. He is not the greatest thing since sliced bread. And that's probably he's been through so many wives.
Man, there are some angry loser nerds around here.
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