Guillermo, King of the World, Lovecraft, 3-D!

Wait...didn't Guillermo del Toro already fill the void left with his departure from The Hobbit? Isn't he reimagining Disney's Haunted Mansion? Well, yes, but see, GdT could just produce and maybe co-write; he does a lot of that. So there's still a movie he's definitely going to direct, and now we know what that is. Coming Soon says he'll shoot in 3-D for the first time when he teams up with James Cameron on H.P. Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness. If you follow del Toro's mercurial movie movements, that title won't come out of the blue. He's been wanting to make it for a very long time, and with the filthy rich Cameron producing and providing 3-D expertise, the time is now. Comparing his treatment of the film to Alien, The Thing, and The Shining in terms of the size of the productions versus most modern horror, del Toro told Coming Soon, "What Mountains of Madness is is a throwback to something nobody does anymore, it's tentpole horror." That's one of the reasons, he added, that the movie has been tabled for so long.

"Everybody now understands horror as minimum investment, maximum return, and most of the time, they go at it, as production entities, with great cynicism, like 'Let's make it really gory or extreme' and for a very low budget, and recuperate our investment, make money, all that. "If you make a horror movie for half a million and it makes [four million], they're very happy. The studio sees horror movies as something they will not invest more than $30-40 million. Mountains of Madness needs to be tentpole in the way that the tentpole movies of the past were, about $130 million."

So look for a period R-rated horror movie set in Antarctica in a theater near you...in 3-D.

Comments

[Jeremy H]

Awesome...just awesome.

[J.Bradley]

It BETTER be good, otherwise it's just "The Haunting" remake.

[Wappy Nipplechop]

If this happens, it will most definitely be the greatest H.P.L. adaptation to date!!!