With Guillermo del Toro set to announce his next project either at Comic-Con or directly following, speculation as to what it will be is running rampant. The Pan’s Labyrinth director, who dropped out of helming The Hobbit movies at the end of May, is scheduled to be in Hall H Friday afternoon for a very long panel introducing the horror film he produced and co-wrote called Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark. Sure, director Troy Nixey and stars Katie Holmes and Guy Pearce are sure to be fascinating, but why does the panel need to be 90 minutes long? I predict he’ll surprise everyone and announce his upcoming project then. And what will it be?
Well, sources tell me he’s going to direct At the Mountain of Madness, the H.P. Lovecraft short novel that del Toro has long wanted to direct. The movie — a Universal feature — is a very adventurous project, something del Toro had been seeking. Neither the studio nor his reps would comment. For those of you not familiar with it, At the Mountain of Madness is a period piece set in Antarctica about a group of explorers who come across a mysterious race of tentacled monsters. Del Toro has called it “a Shackleton epic exploration movie, but full of tentacled things.” Del Toro wrote the script a few years ago and was hoping to get it into production before The Hobbit. Now that that’s not happening, it seems he’s turned his focus back to this 1931 novella that’s considered the decisive “demythology” of Lovecraft’s original cosmic entity, the Cthulhu.
We’ll see tomorrow if I’m right.
FINALLY! I’ve been hoping for a movie of this novel for years!
Oh God yes! Please yes!! Frankenstein can wait, we’ve already seen tons of versions, but this…!! It’s new to film, it hasn’t been done to death, and it’s perfect for him.
omg, yes, please make this movie!
Haunted Mansion!
Bubba FTW.
Disney just posted this on FaceBook:
Guillermo del Toro
just made a surprise announcement that he will be directing a brand new Haunted Mansion movie in 3D, told from the perspective of the Hatbox
Ghost, and it will be SCARY!
That man has been saying that for years – this is nothing new… and it never will be realized. Don’t talk the talk if you can’t walk the walk, good sir. You fools are actually printing him saying it AGAIN.
It’s “At the MountainS of Madness”, not only one mountain. And it’s not “the Cthulhu”, because it’s not a race. Cthulhu is a Great Old One.
This article has been widely criticized by Lovecraft fans, so you do know.
Maybe after Haunted Mansion? Please?!