"Let the Lovecraftian insanity begin: Guillermo Del Toro and James Cameron team up" - iO9
"Guillermo Del Toro Finally Arrives 'At The Mountains Of Madness'! Best Movie News Of The Year?" - MTV
OK, this is going to be a Gorgeous looking movie, I love the story (one of my favorite, and one of the most SciFi-est of HPL's stories) and I might line up for the Midnight Day-of-Release Show just for the HPL love factor, but the second thing that came to my mind when I first read the announcement (after "Oh My Elder Gods, this thing will be Beautiful!") was "I hope they keep Cameron away from the script." C'mon, Avatar was "A Man Called Horse in Space" and Titanic is a Melodramatic cornfest with a story straight off the Lifetime Network.
OK, The Moving Arts Journal says Matthew Robbins is co-writing with Del Toro, but Matthew Robbins is best known to me for writing such cheese as *batteries not included & Corvette Summer, but he's gotten praise for Mimic for taking a cheesy story (Giant Mutant Bugs are eating the Homeless, and We're Next!) and making it (somewhat) believable.
This is supposed to be shot in 3D, & I'll guess with some of Cameron's super-duper equipment, and hopefully we'll have a nice mix of actors who work well while emoting to a tennis ball on a stick and actors who work well with real co-stars & props, but no one's been attached to the production except the three names I've mentioned here.
This has the potential to be awesome.
QUOTE (Freddie Freelance @ Jul 30 2010, 04:37 PM) 
"Let the Lovecraftian insanity begin: Guillermo Del Toro and James Cameron team up" - iO9
"Guillermo Del Toro Finally Arrives 'At The Mountains Of Madness'! Best Movie News Of The Year?" - MTV
OK, this is going to be a Gorgeous looking movie, I love the story (one of my favorite, and one of the most SciFi-est of HPL's stories) and I might line up for the Midnight Day-of-Release Show just for the HPL love factor, but the second thing that came to my mind when I first read the announcement (after "Oh My Elder Gods, this thing will be Beautiful!") was "I hope they keep Cameron away from the script." C'mon, Avatar was "A Man Called Horse in Space" and Titanic is a Melodramatic cornfest with a story straight off the Lifetime Network.
OK, The Moving Arts Journal says Matthew Robbins is co-writing with Del Toro, but Matthew Robbins is best known to me for writing such cheese as *batteries not included & Corvette Summer, but he's gotten praise for Mimic for taking a cheesy story (Giant Mutant Bugs are eating the Homeless, and We're Next!) and making it (somewhat) believable.
This is supposed to be shot in 3D, & I'll guess with some of Cameron's super-duper equipment, and hopefully we'll have a nice mix of actors who work well while emoting to a tennis ball on a stick and actors who work well with real co-stars & props, but no one's been attached to the production except the three names I've mentioned here.
"Guillermo Del Toro Finally Arrives 'At The Mountains Of Madness'! Best Movie News Of The Year?" - MTV
OK, this is going to be a Gorgeous looking movie, I love the story (one of my favorite, and one of the most SciFi-est of HPL's stories) and I might line up for the Midnight Day-of-Release Show just for the HPL love factor, but the second thing that came to my mind when I first read the announcement (after "Oh My Elder Gods, this thing will be Beautiful!") was "I hope they keep Cameron away from the script." C'mon, Avatar was "A Man Called Horse in Space" and Titanic is a Melodramatic cornfest with a story straight off the Lifetime Network.
OK, The Moving Arts Journal says Matthew Robbins is co-writing with Del Toro, but Matthew Robbins is best known to me for writing such cheese as *batteries not included & Corvette Summer, but he's gotten praise for Mimic for taking a cheesy story (Giant Mutant Bugs are eating the Homeless, and We're Next!) and making it (somewhat) believable.
This is supposed to be shot in 3D, & I'll guess with some of Cameron's super-duper equipment, and hopefully we'll have a nice mix of actors who work well while emoting to a tennis ball on a stick and actors who work well with real co-stars & props, but no one's been attached to the production except the three names I've mentioned here.
Oh hell yes. Lovecraft has the top two horror stories of all time IMHO with "At the Mountains of Madness" and "The Shadow Out of Time".
He really stands above anyone else in that genre.
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