Guilermo Del Toro is making a movie adapted from the story at the mountains of madness....too bad it's not due out until 2010

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1118070/

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2010? Good - hope they take their time with this shit.

that story is one of my favorites.

Isn't this the guy that did "hellboy" and "pans labyrinthe"? I have absolutely no hope for this film. I can see this being another weak adaptation, in which to make H.P.L. turn over in his grave. Stuart Gordon is the only director to do some justice to Lovecraft's stories, and Carpenters In the Mouth of Madness was very Lovecraftian.

Huh - I thought well of those. HB was a pretty clear attempt to get some HPL feel in (the comics did a better jorb, granted, but when isn't that the case?), and Pan's Labyrinth impressed the hell out of me. I have high hopes (but I'll also be pretty damn critical if it doesn't measure up).

Love craft cant turn over in his grave it got robbed to many times hah. i dont have any high expecations for any love craft movie. i saw the tralier for cthulhu and tori spelling is in it. i dont even know if that movie is comming out.

Those crazy shape-shifting amorphous monsters from this story should look pretty amazing with some CGI

See bad HPL movie, roll for SAN loss.

Pan's Labyrinth rules, and so does Hellboy. i hope he does a good job with this too.

i thought this thread was about a hovercraft.

dicks.

I didn't see the hype behind Pans Labyrinth, I thought the story was bland. Jan Svankmajer's Alice did a better job at capturing the dark undertones of a childs escapist fantasies from a painful or dull existence.

GoatCatalyst said:

The Hewlett Packard Hovercraft, yes. Clearly; I thought this was obvious?

I've ALWAYS said that At The Mountains of Madness was one of the ONLY Lovecraft stories (books) that could be made into a great movie. It's got such a concise, reasonably straight-forward scene for scene story...

If done right, this could RULE!

Ron Perlman?

niflheim said:

i was under the assumption that in the case of pan's labyrinth it was all meant to be true, only that the adults couldn't see what ofelia saw due to their lives being deeply rooted in the world that they "knew"

either way...if you go into a movie expecting some life-changing event you're a fool. just enjoy the movie for its story and cinematography

del Toro rules. I never saw Hellboy though.

Kinslayer said:

Yeah everything else, although awesome, is just some guy retelling events up until the last page where he keeps writing stuff like...they are coming now, I can hear it at the door!

I've read pretty much every short story of his, I would say that all of the lesser known ones, even to horror fiction fans, would make better stories than his well known ones...stuff like whisperer in the dark, the horror at red hook

I have an entire screenplay/script written for a film adaptation of The Hound. I played off of it a bit so as to make it 'work' as a film but it's the same story for the most part. I want to film it entirely in Providence with the grave robbing scenes filmed at Swan Point Cemetery (for obvious reasons)...

Someday I'll get the crew and have the time/$$ to do it...

Kinslayer said:

even with my limited film experience I would help in anyway to make that....though I think if you wanted to add to the lovecraft feel you would have to use the Charter St cemetery in Salem, it's the place he set most of his cemetery scenes in.

I think I said I didn't enjoy the story, not that I was looking for a life altering experience from viewing Pan's Labyrinth. I just wish I could have gotten those 2 lost hours of my life back, or whatever the duration of the film was.

I think most of his stuff would rely on having narration throughout - not a very popular technique, nowadays.

DestroyYouAlot said:

people should just shoot themselves if they complain about having to read subtitles, they obviously can't read well and get frustrated that they can't finish reading the sentences before the scene changes.

Steady narration worked well for Fight Club, which the studio was originally against.

niflheim said:

and american histor x....didn'y do so well for the Alexander movie with colin farell...although I liked that movie sans the gay sex...

Email me @ kinslayer_war@yahoo.com --> when I get home I'll forward you the script/screenplay.

I have 2 cameras (HI-8 so they'll be nice and grainy) tripods, mics etc...

I have editing skills as well; I majored/minored in Multimedia/Graphic Design...

Only Final Cut Pro is real.

Somebody was doing a bunch of low-budget (total fans-for-fans) HPL films a while back... Yog-Sothoth.com might have some info.

Y_Ddraig_Goch said:

the only thing good about that movie was rosario dawson's floppy pillows of awesome

LOL @ "floppy pillows of awesome."

*thank you, thank you*

SacreligionNLI said:

was that the chick he was raping? she was pretty hot, I think they called her Roxshana or something.

I saw the directors cut...I really hope the theatrical released ended with him dying in India, in the version I watched...after 2 hours and him dying in India..."unlike the legend, he lived on..." then ensued about 40 more minutes of the journey back home, complete boringness.

I have a bunch of VHS tape collection of DIY Lovecraft film adaptations that were compilation collections from the Lovecraft Film Fest in Portland Oregon every year

Kinslayer said:

I'm probably too unprofessional to help with anything major, I am majoring in creative writing right now, so what I do with my film "company" is mostly script and plot. But you already have the script so the most I could do is read it and as a fellow lovecraft fan and script writer tell you what I think.

the movies we make right now are only youtube worthy, besides our Alf horror comedy that will someday finally make it to dvd under our production (we're saving up for a more expensive camera, the one we have now is 500 dollars, we want to upgrade to something in the 2000 dollar range, we don't even have lighting or sound equipment yet hahah) , although we are embarking on our first serious short film to be entered into a movie contest, the prize is having ramero watch it and put it on the dvd release of his newest movie as an extra.


either way I would like to check out the script email me at Devaneykyle@hotmail.com

Kinslayer said:

I'm doing my masters in TV production. Keep me in mind if you need any crew.

DestroyYouAlot said:

double lulz

Del Toro will make this work. His only mis-step was Mimic, and he had no control over that one so he essentially been flawless in his film-making and there is no reason for that to change anytime soon.

Svankmajer is a genius and Alice is of course a better film than Pan's Labyrinth, but to compare the two is fair to neither. Same basic theme, extremely different purpose and execution.

I'd really like to make "Imprisoned With The Pharaohs" one day myself.

I think Del Toro will respect the work and bring ATMOM to life well; I haven't seen much of his shit, but it seems like he's very adaptable and has a deep appreciation for Horror of all kinds, so he should be able to make it work. Hopefully it will be in English... Looks like it's an American production, so I think it will be.

Del Toro is also pushing to direct the last Potter film.

narkybark said:


If Cuaron can do one, why not! Though he would be better suited for the sixth movie. Should be fun either way and it would be cool to see it work out

i can see it now... "said the Elder Thing."