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At The Mountains Of Madness
Status: In Development
GDT's Role: Writer & Director
Summary
Project in development. Based on the H.P. Lovecraft short novel.
What GDT Had To Say
September 16, 2009 (DTF Message Boards)
"Next year will start R&D on my lifetime commitment AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS."
From an interview posted on SciFi.com: With regard to At the Mountains of Madness, I'd love to see you tackle H.P. Lovecraft in a way that hasn't been done.
Del Toro: Me too. Me too. ... Part of the arrangement with Universal--in being essentially there for now until 2017--part of the arrangement was they would finance research and development for Mountains of Madness. And we are doing it. There are many technical tools in creating the monsters that don't exist, and we need to develop them. The creatures, Lovecraft's creatures, the tools that exist for CG and the materials that exist for makeup effects, you need to push them to get there and we're going to push them.
TORN interview, 22-Oct-2008:
And allow me to add one thing – because of all those projects, there is one that is to me – in a way I it may not be as complex and as monumental at first sight as The Hobbit, but is ‘At The Mountains of Madness’. And that movie I have kept alive for many, many years and I want to keep it alive to do as soon as I can. Right now I am fortunate that most of my projects rest at the same place, and that is Universal, including Saturn and the End of Days. So I want to send a message out that, that that movie is alive and well and that there’s a lot of research and development that has to be done to create the creatures in that movie, and the City. Some artists and key technicians have been working on for now years, and will continue to work through the production and post production of The Hobbit. Scrutinized by me, but they have their own set of logarithms and chemical materials to solve before we can create those creatures properly. So that movie is not dead – it’s not instated, it continues to evolvewith Te Hobbit. And it is my belief that a lot of the stuff we’re going to develop in terms of digital and make-up tools for The Hobbit will be used for that.
Notes
- Latest news, posted 18 Jun 2006 by GDT: "Budgeting from scratch with WB physical production dept. I love working in this place! Hope they'll make it-"
- Ron Perlman may play the role of "Larson"
- William Stout did some preliminary art design for AtMOM.
What GDT Had To Say
Posted 30-Nov-2007 on Hellboy 2 Message board:
"ATMOM is a delicate project to push through a studio: no love interest, no female characters, no happy ending...
BUt i believe its time to resurrect the BIG TENTPOLE horror movie. The EVENT HORROR movie. Like THE EXORCIST was or THE SHINING or ALIEN or JAWS in their time..."
29-Jul-2010 - Will GDT and Cameron make MADNESS?
11-Mar-2010 - THE HOBBIT May Lead to MADNESS
22-Oct-2008 - ATMOM Lives!
04-Oct-2007 - When Will The Madness Start?
04-Jan-2007 - Holy Crap! ATMOM Script Review
22-Nov-2006 - ATMOM update: GDT to shoot trailer?
19-Oct-2006 - ATMOM After Hellboy 2?
23-Jan-2006 - Producer Don Murphy Talks Madness
29-Jan-2008 - Del Toro To Incite Audiences To ‘Madness’ With H.P. Lovecraft Project
MTV (submitted by Parker)
22-Dec-2007 - Madness Tops Del Toro's List
ScFi.com (submitted by Parker)
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