Guillermo del Toro's AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS - WTF Happened to this (Unmade) Movie?!

It's a good thing this wasn't made as Tom Cruise has a habit of taking over a production and turning to focus only on himself so that the story gets lost. The movie becomes a Cruise vehicle and loses all contact with the original material. It would have been a total debacle.

Of course, with Del Toro it was already a debacle before Cruise was even added to the list. Cthulhu popping up as a jump scare at the end? Why don't you add some Blade vampires in there as well. Certainly the Demeter opening is really from the Call of Cthulhu so sure let's throw some King in Yellow in there as well. The problem is the Mountains of Madness were a deep psychological horror story. There was only one spot of actual action, the rest was suspense--which is what made it good. But, Del Toro has to turn everything into a Grindhouse style action story. It should have been done by Roman Polanski not Guillermo Del Toro.

Far be it from me to not allow that people can learn and change. It was a very good thing the plug was pulled on Del Toro's original AMOM vision. It was more horrifying than the thing Danforth saw beyond the mountains. Sill, the Shape of Water is closer in mood to what AMOM needed so maybe if he does in his old age it will be better--or maybe not. That thought leaves me with deep slimy nightmares.

It's a shame. If ANYONE can successfully bring Lovecraft to the screen, it's Guillermo del Toro.

Sounds amazing, it would be amazing if this gets picked up again

Pearlman first work with Del Toro is Cronos (1993) not Blade II (2002).

Earlier this month, Guillermo Del Toro met with Tom Cruise at his home to talk about playing the lead role in At the Mountains of Madness. Cruise declined citing himself too old to play the lead role.

Don't give up Guillermo!

Would you like to see del Toro's ATMOM? yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes! ...staring Tom Cruise... err, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, NO!

Lovecraft Country is more about a message than a story. We get it, Lovecraft wasn't the greatest person...you showed him I guess. But we need a great At the Mountains of Madness movie that just tells an awesome story!

Guillermo Del Toro has plans to make At the Mountains of Madness as a small animated film for Netflix, but let's all be glad he spared us Tom Cruise.

H.P. Lovecraft was not racist. I've read all his works more than once and I can't see any racism in his works. Please provide an example of Lovecraft's racism so I can examine it.

They can leave their LGBTQ+ out of my Lovecraft

Master Guillermo del Toro's vision for "AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS" is the only one I am waiting for

Good video, but stop parroting that crap about Lovecraft being a huge racist -- it's bullshit.

I wonder if Carolco ironically kicked themselves for not going with Verhoeven's pitch?

Perlman started with Del Toro with Chronos at the beginning of

The Spanish, Argentinians, Chileans and Mexicans would pitch in to get it made

They need to do a faithful adaptation of At the Mountains of Madness and then do a sequel based on the novella, A Colder War, by Charles Stross. A Colder War is available online for free. A very good read.

It sounds amazing! Would love to see it.

Let's hope Del Toro enjoyed those Oscar wins- they'll never happen again. And if he wanted to make a fish romance, why didn't he hire Troy McClure?

Starrimg Tom Cruise? Ewwww. Why? Get someone good and relatable instead. And don't be trying to sneak in the even worse John Travolta. It deserves good actors.

I read that Del Toro wrote his version of At The Mountains of Madness taking place in the time of the Spanish Conquest of Mexico. I imagine those mountains being so different from every other one of Mexico’s mountains and so full of evil that no one, be it the Aztecs, Mayans, Spanish, or any other native Mexican tribe and kingdom, would have the gall to go near them.

Think he could have pulled it off

LoTR adapation: Check, nailed it.
DUNE: Check, finally nailed it.
Barbie: Check, didn't think they would nail it, but did
At the Mountains of Madness: Ch...Wait, WTF!!!! LET'S GOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

Hp lovecraft did NOT have racist idead above those of his time.

HP lovecrafts writings have NOTHING to do with woke or lgbtq ideas or content.

I think it's his ego. Sometimes less is more, as Lovecraft proved. He doesn't need over 100 million to make a brilliant movie. And as for Prometheus? Why does one negate the other? Prometheus is it's own movie and really had very little likeness to at the mountains of madness. There have been some amazing go fund me Lovecraft movies made on a pittance. And in my opinion, Cruise would ruin the movie as he did to Anne Rice's Interview. If Del Toro can't make a brilliant movie on less than 100 million then he has lost his talent. Unless he's afraid of hitting that Lovecraft movie curse. It is extremely difficult to successfully convert his writings to film as proof of all the horrible attempts (who's Directors didn't care much). Maybe he's afraid to touch such a masterpiece that Lovecraft embodies. Since I believe he truly does care and love Lovecraft's body of work.

Peter Jackson would be my choice to make this. Is faithfulness to source material is peerless, until Hobbit at least.

The Thing was an adaptation of much of At the Mountains of Madness.

The only way I'd watch AtMoM with Tom Cruise: he gets eaten by a Shoggoth or forced to watch a Shoggoth burlesque show, driving his character insane.

This is the Holy Grail of Hollywood movies.

I can’t help it. White people are apart of the simulation so anything they like has to be brought up… an example Blade 2

But yes I would’ve liked to see this movie

Might be a blessing in disguise, I think Tom Cruise would cheese it up. Similar to Will Smith, they both have just been in a lot of fucking shows. Too much shit. It would undoubtedly be stronger with a recast for the main character

One day it will be made, hopefully they will find a way to make it more cheaply?

Please, please, Mr. Del Toro. Consider doing "The Dream Quest of Unknown Kaddath". I think it is by far Lovecraft's best.

No movie-miss will ever make me as sad as never getting to see a big budget, hard R adaptation of At The Mountains of Madness directed by GDT.

Imagine to destroy a production over Prometheus. 🤦

I love Del Toro films and will support whatever he puts out next :) But I hope he re-thinks using Tom Cruise after seeing how he ruined the Mummy reboot. Tom reportedly threatened to walk off the set if he didn't get his way over the vision of the director, leaving them rewriting much of the script to follow Tom as more of a hero and even changing the ending to make Tom all-powerful and victorious. But the changes broke the film, nothing made sense or worked well in the end.
I'm tired of seeing Tom Cruise in anything. Knowing he abandoned his daughter makes it hard for me to be willing to support his films at the box office. I think a film like this would be better with a lesser-known actor because we'd be more afraid he'll be killed off ;) Or even switch for a female lead since she'll seem physically vulnerable and distract fans of the original text so the film will be less predictable for them

Yes it would be great. This maybe also explains why no one has looked at John Wyndham’s The Kraken Wakes which would also be incredible if dark in its core end of the world invasion tale… from the deeps.

it's not hard to turn it into a rescue film, hero trying to save family going to hell only to bring back a monster

I'd love to see this movie, but not with Tom Cruise. He is the only thing that wouldn't honestly fit.

I claim that Call of Cthulhu RPG and Chaosium played a huge part in making Lovecrafts mythos as popular as it is today.

Casting the utterly untalented and juvenile-looking Tom Cruise in a film and story of this magnitude was a colossally and unfathomably stupid idea in my opinion.

The Shape of Water is garbage

They way you pronounce the "H" in H.P. is like nails on a chalk board.

I would LOVE to see GDT’s ATMOM - but NOT with Cruise. No, no, nope!

This shit still hurts, to this daayyy