Last night , Guillermo del Torodropped some VFX footage on Instagram from his canceled production of his adjustment of H.P. Lovecraft’sAt the Mountains of Madness . The cartridge holder was create by Industrial Light and Magic , which demonstrates that he was pretty far along in the film’spre - viz developing , and was minutes away fromstarting to shootbefore it got unceremoniously shut out down by Universal Studios , citing both theR - rating and the 150 million buck damage tag . you’re able to see the time below , but be warned ; themonsterthat appear genuinely populate up to del Toro ’s besthorror creatures.(It also , stunningly enough , matches up toLovecraft ’s own visionfor the devil . )
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Back in December of 2021 , del Toro mentioned on Stephen King ’s podcast that when he bless a multi - project great deal with Netflix , he was cave in the opportunity to force out some of his shelved projects include The Count of Monte Cristo and At the Mountains of Madness . He also advert that if he were to make Mountains now he would aim for a script that was uncanny , tigther , and more focussed . That makes common sense ! The del Toro of 2010 is a far cry from the del Toro of 2022 .
Free League recently published a two-volume illustrated edition of At the Mountains of MadnessImage:Free League | François Baranger
At the Mountains of Madness is one of Lovecraft ’s most well - fuck works , and it bear a special piazza in the horror canon . It is , thankfully , one of his least racist pieces of fable , probably because of the setting itself ; an isolated Antarctic exploration does n’t really have a great deal of the inherent social anatomical structure that occur in his other workplace .
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