Del Toro Vows to Make Lovecraft’s AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS
Pan’s Labyrinth and Hellboy director Guillermo del Toro still wants to make his adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness.
Del Toro tells IndieWire: “This is why I wear this ring since the project got canceled. This is the fake ring about a fake university, the one that appears in the book, Miskatonic University, and I’m gonna wear it until I make the movie. They may bury me with it.”
He continued: “It’s difficult to tackle. We had James Cameron as a co-producer with me …. we had Tom Cruise [to star] and we thought we were gonna get it made and we didn’t, it didn’t happen. These are not decisions you make. Most of us filmmakers, we exist in a world that moves above our paygrade. People think that our career is a series of decisions. Our career is a series of accidents happening with your decisions on top. You don’t decide to do one movie instead of another.”
At the Mountains of Madness was originally serialized in the February, March, and April 1936 issues of Astounding Stories. The story details the events of a disastrous expedition to the Antarctic continent in September 1930, and what was found there by a group of explorers led by the narrator, Dr. William Dyer of Miskatonic University. Throughout the story, Dyer details a series of previously untold events in the hope of deterring another group of explorers who wish to return to the continent.
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