H.P. Lovecraft meets Guillermo Del Toro (and James Cameron)?

[IBCoupe]

Yes, please.

http://www.slashfilm.com/2010/07/28/gui ... producing/

To the many, many people who bring up H.P. Lovecraft‘s At the Mountains of Madness (the book that combines exploratory adventure, science fiction and Lovecraft’s tales of great, horrible old gods) every time Guillermo del Toro has a window of availability: this one’s for you. The director has talked about wanting to adapt Lovecraft’s story for many years, but it always seemed like a really tough sell. After all, what studio wants to finance an expensive, dark, R-rated film like this?

As it turns out, that studio appears to be Universal. Can’t hurt that James Cameron has come aboard to produce. Has the time finally come for a big-budget Lovecraft film?

[skydragoness]

[Urabus GodofTraction]

Soooooo cute.


As much as I love South Park, I'm a little sad your average mouthbreather now knows who Cthulhu is.

[skydragoness]

I actually have not read Lovecraft's works (I want to, believe me, it's on my winter reading list); but I was introduced to Cthulu from Castlevania SOTN.

[Dattebayo]

I learned about it from a crazy ex-gf. Goth chicks...

[themadscientist]

I hope you gave her some of your "essence."

[BusyBadger]

I'm a little sad your average mouthbreather now knows who Cthulhu is.

^ This ^

[IBCoupe]

As much as I love South Park, I'm a little sad your average mouthbreather now knows who Cthulhu is.

It's popular, now it sucks.

[Hijacker]

I thought del Toro was making a vidja game based on Lovecraft?

[MinisterofDOOM]

I am unbelievably excited about this. Del Toro is a monumental genius. He's got more vision than the rest of Hollywood combined, and he really knows how to build incredible worlds. There's no one better for this. I was pretty unhappy when I heard he was dropping some of his involvement with The Hobbit, but Lovecraft > Tolkien and this absolutely justifies the decision.

I thought del Toro was making a vidja game based on Lovecraft?

He's doing that as well. Not many details on it at the moment, though.

[flohtingPoint]

As much as I love South Park, I'm a little sad your average mouthbreather now knows who Cthulhu is.

It's also sad that your average literature fan doesn't know Lovecraft was a massive racist.