jerr3d opened this issue on May 31, 2010 · 15 posts
jerr3d posted Mon, 31 May 2010 at 9:33 PM
He is staying on as co-writer, but due to delays will not direct the films.
As much as i hate to hear this maybe now he will be able to go ahead with making H.P.Lovecrafts' At the Mountains of Madness.
ShawnDriscoll posted Mon, 31 May 2010 at 10:21 PM
So the whole movie is delayed or Del Toro had other projects that couldn't wait and another director will replace him?
jerr3d posted Mon, 31 May 2010 at 10:59 PM
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here's the story i read
KimberlyC posted Tue, 01 June 2010 at 12:15 AM
Sad.. but I can only hope Peter Jackson will take over. :)
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Winterclaw posted Tue, 01 June 2010 at 1:12 AM
Peter Jackson is probably the best guy for the job, so yeah I hope he takes over as well.
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ShawnDriscoll posted Tue, 01 June 2010 at 1:20 AM
Unless he can find a good director to live in New Zealand for 6 years to do the work for him.
adh3d posted Tue, 01 June 2010 at 5:03 AM
Ghostofmacbeth posted Tue, 01 June 2010 at 8:14 AM
But it is all a question when MGM will get situated, sadly.
Robmobius posted Tue, 01 June 2010 at 8:25 AM
I do really want him to make the Mountain of Madness. Nobody has ever really done a decent HP Lovecraft film that I can think of. Although I do like Carpenter's hommage. :)
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jerr3d posted Tue, 01 June 2010 at 9:20 AM
I thought the Necronomicon was a decent Lovecraftian film. Carpenter's is just plain weird, but so was HPL.
On the other hand Jackson said he would never work for New Line Cinema again after the dispute over LOTR profits. How MGM has the rights to the Hobbit instead of NLC idk.
Robmobius posted Tue, 01 June 2010 at 9:32 AM
I forgot about the Necronomicon... That was pretty decent. :) Mind you the last story was pretty damn weird and disturbing
In the moth of madness by Carpenter I thought was a decent stab at a H.P.L. film (even tho' it was a homage you could say).
JenX posted Tue, 01 June 2010 at 3:39 PM
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tvining posted Tue, 01 June 2010 at 8:41 PM
This is good news, as far as I can see. "Pan's Labyrinth" was a great film, but Del Toro is the wrong director for "The Hobbit"--his sense of fantasy is too strange for "The Hobbit"--it should look and feel more familiar and earthy, like LOTR, not like "Pan's" or "Hellboy." He also has a slapstick sense of humor, and the Hobbit needs a much more Brit sense of understatement.
Miss Nancy posted Tue, 01 June 2010 at 10:13 PM
I'd rather see "the mountains of madness", too. it's the one where the giant penguins and
shoggs are running amok in the antarctic. does anybody really wanna see a bunch of those
hobbits jumping and stumbling around for 2 hrs?
jerr3d posted Wed, 02 June 2010 at 6:34 PM
Personally i would rather see Shadow over Innsmouth get the movie treatment since it is one of Mr Lovecraft's more action oriented stories.
But having seen what del Toro did with Devil's Backbone and Pan's Labyrinth im sure his version of AtMoM would be very interesting, Penguins and all ^ ^