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So, James Cameron let slip that he's producing a movie adaptation of At the Mountains of Madness with Guillermo del Toro at the helm as director. You cannot possibly imagine how happy I am at this news.
It's currently in Preproduction and as such not much info is available. Anyone here have an IMDBPro account that would like to share any information :ninja: ?
Ye gods, James Lameron? Seriously? I'm not looking forward to how he'll dumb this one down for the public, especially since it's one of Lovecraft's best.
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He's the producer, not the director. Guillermo del Motherfucking Toro is the director.
Hopefully this leads to a Music of Erich Zhann or Color from Outer Space adaption.
I can see the COoS but I don't think Erich Zann has enough material to make a movie of. There's a Whisperer in Darkness movie coming out soon, though. There's a small chance it may be released in theatres. Made by the HPLHS.
@Kairouseki:
Guillermo del Toro at the helm as director.
Sold .
@Kairouseki:
He's the producer, not the director. Guillermo del Motherfucking Toro is the director.
That is, certainly, much better.
@Kairouseki:
James Cameron
This cocky jerk again? That's it, I'm outta h-
with Guillermo del Toro at the helm as director
On second thought…
The title brought a tear to my eye when I remembered there was supposed to be a video game adaptation of the novella. :(
Movie sounds good.
Cameron better stay the fuck out of Guillermo's way. That is all.
Ye gods, James Lameron? Seriously? I'm not looking forward to how he'll dumb this one down for the public, especially since it's one of Lovecraft's best.
Agreed . Surprised people read Lovecraft here at all , only references I found were stemed in how he was such a big hack etc.
Anyways this is a prety good piece , and it's prety much impossible to do , because it bases stuff on things everyone knows that are not true , meaning that other range of mountains in the back .
I only saw a piece of the Shadow Over Innsmouth adaptation , which was named after Dagon , which is a good , very moodie and I'd say purple story that you realy have to let sink deep to understand , yet it has nothing to do with it . It wasn't that bad , the skinning was certainly rather…..disturbing , but there are some things that just look foolish in real life . Like the tiara that the captain was wearing .
The begining where they throw that thing in the water though , that was prety intense .
edit : whoa , surprised so many here actualy read it .
Ya know I was just thinking about Zann . It could make a good independent film if done right , at least .
This has potential to be awesome. But I fear because of Cameron, even if he's not directing.
"Where we're going, we won't need eyes to see."
lol. Okay, now that someone has mentioned Shadow Over Innsmouth, I have to post this:
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The game Call of Cthulhu has a pretty good recreation of parts of SOI. Especially the chase. That part is insanely difficult.
Bump.
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He's putting his heart and soul into this movie, I'm sure it's going to be amazing.
The way he says he's approaching the Shoggoth sounds interesting.
Never thought I'd see the day where the man behind The Terminator, Terminator 2, Aliens, and The Abyss was actually being labelled a liability. You may think Avatar was that bad folks, but it just ain't true. Jump off the bandwagon.
We shall not cease from exploring
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time
Cameron better stay the fuck out of Guillermo's way. That is all.
Agreed. If he does, this movie will be fuck-all-balls awesome.
And I may very well go to the movie with a Shoggoth plush under my arm… >.>
Never thought I'd see the day where the man behind The Terminator, Terminator 2, Aliens, and The Abyss was actually being labelled a liability. You may think Avatar was that bad folks, but it just ain't true. Jump off the bandwagon.
If Cameron gets too much influence in this movie it will ruin it. Period.
@Kairouseki:
If Cameron gets too much influence in this movie it will ruin it. Period.
Oh, well don't bother to elaborate. No one else has explained how Cameron would ruin the film. Why start defending that position now? 
Because he doesn't make movies in the vain of AtMoM. He wouldn't be able to is what I'm trying to say. He makes big budget Hollywood action movies and should stick to doing that. He can make good movies, it just so happens his latest wasn't his best. I'm not saying he's a bad director (although he has been being an asshat lately) but he doesn't make movies like this movie should be made.
Guillermo del Toro, if left to his own devices, will adapt this story as perfect as it can be replicated on film. James Cameron having any influence in the film whatsoever I think will doom it.
You may think Avatar was that bad folks, but it just ain't true.
Yeah because his first film in years show how much he grew and how well he learned to tell an original story.
Avatar was fucking amazing and Cameron hasn't lost the incedible touch he used to have.
I mean anyone that wants to argue that, just look at how much money it made!
Jesus, stop drinking the Kool-Aid sheeple!
But seriously, Cameron as producer? That doesn't bother me at all.
Director of ridiculously incredibly absurdly disgustingly (inexplicably) financially successful film holding the role to say, "Hey guys, wanna work on this?"
Sounds great.
But lets try to stay at least marginally on topic here please 
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Haha, I like that.
And thanks for the clarification Kairouseki. I tend to agree with you (and the majority of others) about the film being better if del Toro is left to his own devices. It just bugs me when a director who has given the world such gems in the past is dismissed pretty much without any sense of balance or fairness whatsoever.
We shall not cease from exploring
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time
sigh It got axed. Because del Toro wouldn't make it PG-13.
http://www.salon.com/entertainment/movies/guillermo_del_toro/index.html?story=/ent/movies/film_salon/2011/03/08/mountains_of_madness_derailed
FUCK. YOU. Universal.
Son of a fucking bitch.
All I want is a motherfucking Lovecraft adaption that isn't in fucking black and white.
Fuck you Universal. Fuck you.
Since Cameron was the producer let's hope that they can get another studio to take it up. If anyone has the weight to throw around, it's Cameron.
Have they gone mad in there.
Can't Del Toro have at least one project work out fine in the end. This man needs some luck.
Laaaame.
I don't care for blood and guts and violence and swearing, (and I don't watch movies for boobs) so generally I don't care about the content that makes a movie R rated in the first place.
But the Lovecraft mythos kinda demands it. And some really disturbing stuff that messes with you. It just demands to not be restrained.
sigh It got axed. Because del Toro wouldn't make it PG-13.
http://www.salon.com/entertainment/movies/guillermo_del_toro/index.html?story=/ent/movies/film_salon/2011/03/08/mountains_of_madness_derailedFUCK. YOU. Universal.
A PG 13 adaption of a Lovecraft story.
Hey the ghostbusters episode "featuring" these things was PG 13, that doesn't mean it was good.
It was horribly animated child friendly drivel with grown men wearing silly octopus hats and pink cloaks and the ghostbusters defeating Cthulhu like he was nothing.
"Pacific Rim," a "PG-13, tent pole-sized project with big monsters and the creation of a new world."
I'm torn between not hating this and hating this with all my heart and soul. Any input ?
Well what I got from the article was that another studio might pick it up and Del Toro will still be directing. Of course it's not for sure. I hope to hell this movie gets made though :cwy: .
Del Toro is the only director out there who has the imagination necessary to do Lovecraft justice. He'd BETTER be the director if it gets greenlighted again.
I was so pissed when I read the news.
read.
FUCK YOU UNIVERSAL AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGH
I was SO fucking looking forward to this, and then it gets canned because of executive retardation. Fucking fuck.
Not sure , going by Toro's comments, if he was just going for flesh skinning and bone punctuation or if he wanted something legitimately unsettling instead of gory.
Mountains of Madness isn't gory though. There's no violence in it whatsoever.
I just learned about this movie, and it's already been crapped on.
Dammit.
Didn't know the movie was crappy. Disappointing…
