Well folks it seems Mr. Guillermo del Toro is at it again. A few weeks ago we learned that del Toro’s next project would be the long-awaited AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS and the filmmaker hasn’t stopped talking about it since. Neither has producer James Cameron for that matter. I’m not complaining mind you, actually very far from it!
The last we heard from del Toro he wanted Tom Cruise for the starring role in the film but it seemed Universal were eyeing James McAvoy. Now that whole situation is still up in the air but that’s not stopping del Toro from talking about the project even more! Deadline New York recently caught up with the talented del Toro and asked him about a number of projects he’s got coming up, including AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS. What did del Toro have to say? Check it:
“I came out of The Hobbit, and it was the biggest heartbreak I’ve experienced as a filmmaker, because I will never know what that movie would have been. I was very mindful that I didn’t want to have a rebound movie, as happens sometimes when somebody comes off a long romance. There were very big, lucrative, beautiful projects on the table, and I was developing one of them with Jim Cameron. In my stubborn fashion, I slipped Jim the script, again, when we were meeting on that other project. He said, you still want to do that? To his credit, he said, well, let’s pursue that instead. This is the movie I most want to do. I haven’t done horror in a long time. Devil’s Backbone tries to make the ghost a victim, and not a scary character. Blade 2 is more action than horror. I really love the genre and last time I did a horror film was Mimic, and that was not a horror for the right reasons. That’s a muscle I want to flex. Frankenstein has the mitigating factor that for a length of the narrative, you favor the monster. For horror to work, you have to be afraid. You have to keep the monster in a black and white light. I mostly love monsters too much to see them in that light, but Lovecraft allows me to.”
That’s not all though! Del Toro spills a lot of details regarding the project including the film’s villain, how he sold the project and 3D! To check out the whole interview you’ll want to head right over HERE! Based on the classic H.P. Lovecraft novel, AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS’ synopsis reads something like this:
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.
Things should get rolling with AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS very soon so be sure to keep it here for updates as they come our way!
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