Quote from: SM on Jan 26, 2024, 05:42:52 AMGDT canned At The Mountains of Madness because of similarities to Prometheus, but is doing a take on a film that's been adapted dozens of times.
Just do ATMoM already dude.
There was a bit more to the ATMOM situation than the
Prometheus overlap, including a lot of back-and-forth between him and the studio regarding the budget and rating. del Toro wanted a massive blockbuster budget and an R rating and (even with the backing of both James Cameron and Tom Cruise at the time) the studio was unwilling to give him both, it was one or the other, and that was a compromise he wasn't willing to make.
More recently, he's said that he has found a way to do the movie on a bit of a smaller scale, and he talked in an interview about a Miskatonic University ring he's been wearing, stating the following:
Quote"This is why I wear this ring, since the project got cancelled. This is the fake ring about a fake university, the one that appears in the book, Miskatonic University, and I'm gonna wear it until I make the movie. They may bury me with it."
https://movieweb.com/at-the-mountains-of-madness-movie-guillermo-del-toro/My thought is that there might be a very real chance that Netflix ends up allowing him to make the movie down the line, since they've already given him the chance to do two passion projects that have eluded him for decades in
Pinocchio and now
Frankenstein.
Guillermo del Toro has also said fairly recently that he doesn't know how many live action movies he has left in him, as at this stage in his career he has a lot of stop motion animation projects he wants to explore (he currently has the animated film
The Buried Giant in development at Netflix as well), but he's said there are still a few live action films on his checklist that he'd still love to make (leaving room for projects like
Frankenstein and, if I had to guess, the
At the Mountains of Madness adaptation that he seems to very much still want to do again).
