Picture it…Antartica, land of snow and ice. An expedition group stumbles upon a mountain range taller than the Himalayas. This is no ordinary mountain range though. Inside it there is an ancient and indescribable evil. Does this sound like “The Thing” to you?
Well for shame and slap your wrist as this is author H.P. Lovecraft’s book ‘At The Mountains of Madness’ which was written all the way back in 1931.
And why am I talking about this nightmarish vision of a novel? Simple because it is being adapted for the big screen.
Is that a collective groan I hear??
Not to fear dear reader (love you honey!) because as soon as Guillermo del Toro finishes his current pet project, the currently-shooting “Hellboy 2: The Golden Army”, he’ll move onto another pet project: his long-awaited adaptation of this novel.
This has apparently been on del Toro’s to-do list for ages. In fact, location scouting for “Madness” had already taken place in Romania before “Hellboy 2” was greenlit; if that hadn’t happened, it’s highly likely that del Toro would have been shooting it right now.
Hellboy 2 finishes shooting next year, and with the script finishes, we could see this in production next years as long has he doesn’t use any of those pesky SAG members in the shoot.
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Once you start praising them, they stumble.
This does sound very much like the Hell Boy graphic comic I read. The statue in the mountains and the frog people one. Hmmmm
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