Guillermo del Toro ’s journeying into the heart of H.P. Lovecraft ’s eldritch horror is really happening , a producer tell io9 . At the Mountains of Madness begins filming in June ? Could this be the Lovecraftian film that in reality ruin your head ?
We speak with manufacturer Don Murphy ( Transformers ) who ’s produce Mountains of Madness along with James Cameron , and he confirmed the movie ’s offset date as well as the star . And he told us what to expect .
Top image : Forgotton Shoggoth by*henning at Deviant Art .
Murphy tell us that the movie is “ supposed to fool away in June ” and Tom Cruise is set to asterisk in it , as recently rumored . And he added that the script is very close to the H.P. Lovecraft source material .
In an email to us , Murphy wrote :
Mountains is very close to the Lovecraft
supposed to shoot in June yes with TC
Update : Another inside source tell us that neither the start date , nor Cruise starring in the film , are really plant in stone just yet . There ’s no prescribed first engagement at the moment , and Cruise still is n’t confirm as the moving-picture show ’s star .
Update#2 : Murphy has retract his statements to us . Hetells Hitfixthat the start day of the month is not set at all , and the project is still just in development .
Update#3 : It sound like del Toro may be making a different movie alternatively . See this post for details .
Del Toro ’s Mountains of Madness not happening after all ?
Here ’s the synopsis for Lovecraft ’s iconic book :
A terminated short novel , AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS is a tale of brat unilke any other . The Barren , windswept interior of the Antarctic plateau was lifeless — or so the expedition from Miskatonic University call up . Then they establish the unusual fossils of unheard - of creatures … and the carve stones ten of millions of old age quondam … and , finally , the judgement - blasting terror of the City of the Old Ones .
you’re able to just see how that would make for a splendid moving picture , in the hands of Guillermo del Toro . Could this be the superlative H.P. Lovecraft adaptation of them all , surpassingthe workings of Stuart Gordon and many others ?
We ’ll find out , probably in 2013 .
Ron Perlmantold usthat he ’s in the movie , playing a newly invented character , a “ firedog - sled guy ” who ’s more no - gimcrackery than the academics and intellectual on the mission .
Cameronraised our hopesa while back , when he called Mountains of Madness an “ epically scaled horror film ” and added that “ we have n’t seen anything like this … since Aliens . ” Headded in a separate audience , “ The design work is phenomenal , both the three - dimensional and two - dimensional intention workplace , the physical maquettes , the CG test scenes ; the graphics is phenomenal . The fans certainly wo n’t require for a visual feast with this film . ”
Fingers hybridize that filming goes ahead as planned , and we get to see del Toro ’s vision of the City of the Old Ones .
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