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by Brendan Bettinger Posted:July 28th, 2010 at 8:32 pm
When director Guillermo del Toro spoke with Steve at the Saturn Awards, he was very pessimistic that his 3D adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness would ever come to fruition due to its lack of commercial viability. He explained, “It is very difficult for the studios to take the step of doing an R-rated tentpole with a tough ending [and] no love story.” You know, unless the man who produced and directed the two highest-grossing movies ever offers his services.
Deadline reports that James Cameron will produce the film, and was a major selling point in securing funds from Universal — del Toro will begin pre-production in the coming weeks with a summer 2011 3D shoot in mind. More after the jump:
This has long been a passion project for del Toro, who first set up the adaptation at DreamWorks in 2004. Del Toro has been tied up by The Hobbit for the past two years, but freed up space in his calendar when he departed the project in May. Del Toro made a big splash at Comic-Con with the announcement that he was spearheading a reboot of The Haunted Mansion at Disney, but currently his only official duties are writing and producing with the option to direct.
The director has expressed the desire to adapt his “favorite novel” Frankenstein for the screen, but took advantage of Cameron’s interest in the project to return to At Mountains of Madness for his next directorial effort.
Here’s a brief synopis of Lovecraft’s novella:
The story is written in first-person perspective by the geologist William Dyer, a professor from Miskatonic University. He writes to disclose hitherto unknown and closely kept secrets in the hope that he can deter a planned and much publicized scientific expedition to Antarctica. On a previous expedition there, a party of scholars from Miskatonic University, led by Dyer, discovered fantastic and horrific ruins and a dangerous secret beyond a range of mountains taller than the Himalayas. [Wikipedia]
WOW! I'm just glad he's back!
like I said before.. FINALLY
Nobody but nobody does creature design better than Del Toro. And nobody spends huge amounts of dough more efficiently than Cameron. I'm for three 3D tickets on the strength of the Flying Polyps alone. I have goosebumps. GOOSEBUMPS!
That would be a good movie to see, it could ride off the successes of Stephen King films. We will see though how financial successful it can be.
Impressive, didn't see that coming. Have to say I have newfound respect for Cameron. Del Toro and Cameron . . . never saw THAT coming. Hopefully they keep Ron Perlman involved, and will probably still throw Doug Jones in there somewhere.
Wow that is good news to my ears!! Mountains of Madness is such a cool, intriguing story – can't wait to see what this collaboration reaps.
As an aside, the audiobook for Del Toro & Chuck Hogan's “The Strain” is read by Ron Perlman and is incredibly creepy and well done.
I love that this has come about! YESSS
Very cool, glad to hear it hasn't been axed, even if it is a ways off. Still, I can't help but wonder how well this will translate to film… about half of the book is spent on the main character describing murals depicting the history of the elder things.
Lovecraft deserves this, and hey now theirs two things I respect Cameroon for.
Best news of the year.
Christopher Nolan for Call of Cthulu