[Movies] Guillermo Del Toro Says He's Giving At the Mountains of Madness Another Try
Posted by Jeremy Thomas on 01.07.2013
He's not giving up...
Despite the fact that he has not yet been able to get it off the ground--even with Tom Cruise attached as a star--Guillermo Del Toro says that he's still hoping for At the Mountains of Madness to find a home. Del Toro spoke with the Playlist about his planned adaptation of the H.P. Lovecraft project, which was set up at Universal but didn't get a greenlight because Del Toro refused to compromise on the budget or the R rating.
"I'm going to try it one more time," Del Toro said of the project. "Once more into the dark abyss. We're gonna do a big presentation of the project again at the start of the year and see if any [studio's] interested ... Tom is still attached. I think it would be so fantastic to make it with him. He's been such a great ally of the project."
As to his previous concerns that the film's plot may be a bit too close to Prometheus, he said, "I saw it finally...yes, there are things in common, but, you know, screw it. Lovecraft was there first."
