At the Mountains of Madness - Guillermo del Toro

[Immortan Jonesy]

Early in the episode, del Toro has this to say upon being asked whether or not his working relationship with Netflix might lead to one of his oldest passion projects finally making its way to screens:

Well, listen, take a wild guess which were the first projects I presented, you know? (laughs) I went through the cupboards and found (The Count of) Monte Cristo, (At the) Mountains of Madness. Those were a couple of the ones I presented first. The thing with Mountains is, the screenplay I co-wrote fifteen years ago is not the screenplay I would do now, so I need to do a rewrite. Not only to scale it down somehow, but because back then I was trying to bridge the scale of it with elements that would make it go through the studio machinery...

I don't think I need to reconcile that anymore. I can go to a far more esoteric, weirder, smaller version of it. You know, where I can go back to some of the scenes that were left out. Some of the big set pieces I designed, for example, I have no appetite for. Like, I've already done this or that giant set piece. I feel like going into a weirder direction.

I know a few things will stay. I know the ending we have is one the most intriguing, weird, unsettling endings, for me. There's about four horror set pieces that I love in the original script. So, you know, it would be my hope. I certainly get a phone call every six months from Don Murphy going "Are we doing this or what? Are you doing this next or what?" and I say "I have to take the time to rewrite it."

https://twitter.com/ScottWamplerBMD/status/1466058165448024069

[Master]

Don't  give me hopes... but if true, oh my!

[Immortan Jonesy]

Indeed! it would be totally heartbreaker if the project didn't materialize. But if Guillermo del Toro will succeed..

[Xenomrph]

Holy shit, it would be amazing if he got to make this.

[Immortan Jonesy]

This seems to be the script:

▶ At The Mountains Of Madness By Guillermo Del Toro & Matthew Robbins

[Nightmare Asylum]

Yeah, the script leaked years ago. It isn't very good, unfortunately, but del Toro has said recently that if he does get to make it nowadays, he wants to essentially rewrite the entire thing.

[Nightmare Asylum]

https://twitter.com/NetflixGeeked/status/1586372285430206469

Hmmm, I wonder – could an announcement be coming with Netflix backing this now?

[Immortan Jonesy]

https://twitter.com/NetflixGeeked/status/1586372285430206469

Hmmm, I wonder – could an announcement be coming with Netflix backing this now?

I definitely hope so!

[Xenomrph]

I saw this thread got bumped and got insanely hyped.

Talk about a tease lol

[Nightmare Asylum]

https://www.instagram.com/tv/CkwxWwstuW6/

[Stitch]

Don't have instagram so can't see, but if that's the VFX, it looks good. Shoggoth looks a little weird, and not shoggothy, though.

[Wweyland]

No Penguins though?
Looks like The Thing

[Ingwar]

[Gilfryd]

Don't have instagram so can't see, but if that's the VFX, it looks good. Shoggoth looks a little weird, and not shoggothy, though.

I'm thinking it's a shoggoth, in the form of a penguin (look how tubby it is), turning into a human, turning back into a shoggoth (the tentacles)? The mantis/sickle arms look right out of the Thing prequel though.

No Penguins though?
Looks like The Thing

This was shared a while back, which looks oddly zombified -

[Immortan Jonesy]

No Penguins though?
Looks like The Thing

Aye