Guillermo del Toro talks Mountains Of Madness, says “I’m not giving up”

By Jake Dee

Posted 15 years ago

Last Updated on August 5, 2021

Ever the multi-tasker, Guillermo del Toro is currently honing his creative vision on the epic monster movie PACIFIC RIM. He’s currently casting up the film, with Charlie Day, Idris Alba and Charlie Hunnam already onboard. Still, it’s del Toro’s lifelong dream project, the H.P. Lovecraft tale AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS, that he just can’t seem to relinquish. Could the movie still be made, despite the purported (“risky”) budget for an R-rated movie?

Peep what the Mexican filmmaker recently told the L.A. Times:

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“I’m not giving up…Mountains of Madness’ has been with me for 13, 14 years and I really don’t want to give up on it. Look, the movies I do, I stick with them when I think, well, if I don’t do it, nobody will. … ‘Hellboy,’ if I hadn’t done it, I don’t think anyone would have. ‘Pan’s Labyrinth,’ same thing. ‘Mountains of Madness,’ the way I plan to do it is a very peculiar take, and I think if I don’t stick with it the version I would like to see would never get made.”

About his priorities on getting the film made, del Toro added:

“I’d rather address the budget than the rating,” Del Toro said. “The movie can perfectly someday be PG-13, but contractually I need to protect it. There’s nothing in the movie that is profanity or sexual situations or any of that. But what we learned with ‘Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark’ is that sometimes intensity, the intensity of the situations, garners you the R. ‘Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark,’ in my mind, should be a PG-13. It’s several intense moments [that] got us the R — I think some of the situations at the end, I don’t want to spoil it, but there are a couple of moments at the end that they deemed were too intense and I didn’t want to water down the movie.”

For a self-proclaimed child at heart, del Toro seems to have his head on straight. I for one am glad to hear he’ll never give up on AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS. Bring it home Willy, bring that shite home!

Source: L.A. Times

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