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

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With so many epic and awesome movies at our disposal, how could we ever lament not having more? Well, that's what we explore in our new series, WTF Happened to this (Unmade) Movie, where we take a look at films that got deep into the planning, pre-production and sometimes actual production, only to never see the light of day. What happened? What went wrong? Are we better or worse off without it?
In this episode, we take a look back at the doomed, big-budget, R-rated AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS adaptation from director Guillermo del Toro (PAN'S LABYRINTH), producer James Cameron (ALIENS), and star Tom Cruise (THE MUMMY), based on H.P. Lovecraft's famous novella! In fact, it came really close to being made many times, and we chronicle the ill-fated journey of this amazing-sounding film, as well as what it might've looked like! Hope you enjoy!
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@vfxguru1 3 года назад

Correction. Ron Pearlman first worked with Del Toro on ‘Cronos’ where Pearlman learned to speak Spanish for the film.

@ewolf87 3 года назад

Was just about to say this!

@trexhunter2883 3 года назад

@@ewolf87 Same

@RazvanDraguBlackDome 3 года назад

Wrote that and then saw this comment

@JoBloOriginals 3 года назад

True! Thanks guys!

@seanbrazell6147 3 года назад

That's a cool bit of info. I wonder if that was around the same time Perlman played the deformed hunchback monk in that Inquisition era murder mystery movie with Sean Connery called "In The Name of The Rose? (I THINK!) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7-yYJgpQ-CE.html I'd love to see that film explored a bit too.

@brianlujan7089 3 года назад

I feel like he's one of the only ones that could successfully bring Lovecraft to the masses and start an avalanche of Lovecraft movies

@Cuteemogirl94 3 года назад

Maybe James Cameron could also do it?

@martingrey2231 3 года назад

No. HellBoy is silly and gawdy. Only Kubrick could do it.

@martingrey2231 3 года назад

@@Cuteemogirl94 Hell no.

@gabrielp9646 3 года назад

@@martingrey2231 No offense, but you´re a bit of an ignorant. Movies like HellBoy and Blade are cheesy because the characters were like that in the comics he was adapting from. Look at Cronos, look at the Devil´s Backbone, look at Pan´s Labyrinth, look at the Crimson Peak, look at the Shape of Water...

@cadeplaisance3169 3 года назад

What did you think about Color Out of Space with Nicholas Cage?

@cubanref9670 3 года назад

I've been waiting years for someone to talk about this. One of the greatest missed opportunities ever in cinema. The fact the money for this went into Battleship makes me want to cry 😢

@resonanceytv 3 года назад

couldnt agree more

@Edelhif 3 года назад

BattleShit

@luthermcgee7297 3 года назад

You mean to tell me that their money went into that stupid movie, " battleship"?? What a shame.

@TsukiumisGuy 2 года назад

It took your mention of that film to remind me that it even existed!

@carloslopezortega3327 2 года назад

Agree.

@williammatthews693 3 года назад

I still NEED to see this movie get made... properly. The novella was so dark, twisted and without a shred of hope I would love to see a major Hollywood studio grow some balls and greenlight in the the near future.

@joshuapatrick682 3 года назад

Pan’s Labyrinth still my favorite film! If films are about causing emotion, there is nothing out there that gives me the feels quite like that one.

@jefffiore7869 3 года назад

Mine too!

@steveericson9137 3 года назад

This one will forever be "the one that got away" for me. Not some woman, this film! I needed this film in my life, but it just wasn't meant to be. Now I'm depressed again. Sigh.

@hjermsted22 2 года назад

It's up there with Jodoworsky's Dune, Terry Giliiam's Watchmen and Quentin Tarantino's Star Trek. I wish producers could see what we see when getting so excited for these films.

@plaguedoctorjamespainshe6009 2 года назад

I'm pretty sure he is making a series based on his script now, for Netflix Say what you want about Netflix but they won't change the rating and ending

@loganwithlightsabers3051 6 месяцев назад

Just go watch Prometheus

@chriscostello117 3 года назад

Yes. The answer is yes. Having set as a flashback keeps that tiny thread of hope alive which is key .

@patrickcosgrove886 3 года назад

Definitely want to see this made. Del Toro and Lovecraft are favorites of mine.

@jakomioftherose2434 3 года назад

Considering that At the Mountains of Madness is my second favorite of Lovecraft's stories, yes. I'd love to see it being made into a movie.

@johnpooky84 Год назад

It's my first favorite (and, I think, the first HPL story I ever read).

@monjesenal7477 3 года назад

Del Toro should try pitching it to HBO as a limited series instead

@pdzombie1906 3 года назад

Good idea! It could do for horror what GoT did for fantasy, with several season exploring all of the Lovecraftian universe (but with a better ending, that is...)

@IBeezlebub 3 года назад

@@pdzombie1906 That would be awesome. Strain had lots of potential and still was a great show regardless of some missed storylines. Guillermo can do shows

@marcogarcia2706 3 года назад

My thoughts exactly because adapting it into one feature length film, even if making it close to 3 hours, will make the story feel rushed and won't be as good. However I don't know about starring Tom Cruise and having Cthulhu chasing the characters ( even as awesome as that sounds) near the end instead of the shoggoths. Plus his direction of the story isn't really the way I hoped for an adaptation. I don't doubt Guillermo's ability as a filmmaker because I'm confident he can pull it off, but that is just my opinion. P.S. I would like to see Del Toro do The Call of Cthulhu because I always want to see it made into a movie.

@plaguedoctorjamespainshe6009 2 года назад

Well, it's happening, on Netflix but still

@crazymadd669 3 года назад

I was very excited when I had heard this film was in the process of being made, and of course was highly disappointed when the plug was pulled again recently. Really wish del toro could do this one, it's something I think a lot of HPL fans would enjoy. I would just love to see his version of the story.

@RobVespa 3 года назад

This and, to a lesser extent, Hellboy 3, break my heart...

@wcf312 Год назад

Seeing the horror of someone going insane from looking at an old god for only a moment is on my bucket list. The closest thing to it is the ending of the music video for Fantasy... also pretty lovecraftian and definitely "rated R"

@asaflivni 3 года назад

How about Paul verhoeven's Crusade (almost) starring Arnold Schwarzenegger

@demongorr 3 года назад

+1 here for Crusade, sounds fascinating and makes me sad we didn't get more big budget Paul Verjoven films in general. There's a great chapter on it in the book Tales from Development Hell, would highly recommend you check it out if you haven't already

@anubusx 3 года назад

This needs made. Love me some Lovecraft.

@jeremyvanhorn2645 2 года назад

*this needs to be made

@anubusx 2 года назад

@@jeremyvanhorn2645 lol!!!

@jeremyvanhorn2645 2 года назад

@@anubusx sorry my brain wouldn’t let me scroll past 😂

@trexhunter2883 3 года назад

Anything that has del Toro's name on it I am on board for because I love him and his work.

@pleasecouldyoubetender 11 месяцев назад

this honestly would have been super cool to see developed. Such a phenomenal piece of writing

@killuandyomamma 3 года назад

At first I thought “Tom cruise playing a mad man!?” Then I thought “hmm Tom cruise playing a mad man...”

@DrKuryakin 3 года назад

he wouldnt be playing, just be himself

@Galantski 3 года назад

The real reason the film didn't get made is that Tom Cruise has at least one scene where he's running in every film, and that doesn't work too well in the eldrich ice palace of the Elder Gods.

@jamescourts1030 3 года назад

I’m on the fence with him personally but damn he is good. He could have pulled it off. Like interview with a vampire - Anne rice hated him casted as Lestat and talked shit about him the whole time they filmed. But He was the best part and anne rice detracted her criticisms but Tom cruise basically said he’d never do it again because of her complaints.dude has range and believability.

@Galantski 3 года назад

@@jamescourts1030 One place Cruise would excel in a Lovecraft movie is where the protagonist loses his mind. I'm thinking of his laughing hysterically!

@iputcreamcheeseinmyramen 2 года назад

Guillermo Del Toro's "Mother" is one of the best horror movies I've ever seen, I would love to see him make more of the genre!

@stormriderx4460 Год назад

This is an example of creepy but not scary and gorry.

@starclone4 3 года назад

Ooh, It would be wonderful.... I'm a big fan of the Lovecraft stories... And Mr. Del Toro's work !!!!

@SimonAshworthWood Год назад

This is one of the movies I most want to watch! 😍

@montypeno1495 3 года назад

As popular as Lovecraft is or at least his mythos are nowadays this could get done. I'd love to see it. This story always reminds me of The Thing and that's not a bad thing. Might be too late to get Cameron on board again but you never know.

@56postoffice 3 года назад

James Cameron's *"Spider-Man."* Do that next.

@sclogse1 3 года назад

Why?

@RazvanDraguBlackDome 3 года назад

Correction: Ron Perlman first worked with Del Toro on Cronos

@JoBloOriginals 3 года назад

Thanks!

@iakazul 3 года назад

Yes I want to see this movie!

@WillieManga 2 года назад

Guillermo Del Toro has made some fantastic creatures over the years, including the Pale Man, a scary Simpsons intro, and is currently in production of a Pinnocchio movie that looks amazing. He probably would be able to make this actually work.

@zondervanamo 3 года назад

Fantastic summary - thanks for this!

@neomimzyneomimzy5095 3 года назад

It would be amazing and it's a shame that we will propably never see it....

@jordel2010 3 года назад

This one has to be among the top 5 film projects which is a real shame they didn't materialize, but I guess it just wasn't meant to be that way; maybe Del Toro could make it possible one day as an animation.

@gordonblunt1506 2 года назад

i want this movie made , i think it would be a game changer .. the world needs proper big budget horror

@forever.endeavor Год назад

It’s a shame because at the mountains of madness would have definitely been a thousand times better than Prometheus

@Dystopia1111 3 года назад

"Poor Danforth. Poor, poor Danforth."

@134590174 2 года назад

He's bringing this to Netflix. Look into that.

@joshuamccaffrey3143 3 года назад

They still need to make this movie

@Cryo837 3 года назад

I would rather have seen At The Mountains of Madness than Shape of Water. And especially with all the discoveries down there which validate Lovecraft's assumptions. Evil alien race underneath the ice. Even Buzz Aldrin said after visiting Antartica, something to the effect of "pure evil". The last thing those who run the world want now is a movie which focuses attention on precisely what they are trying to hide.

@RobbieC67 3 года назад

Definitely would love to see this movie!

@Dosnmeda 3 года назад

I still want to see Guillermo’s Hobbit, dammit!!

@cadeplaisance3169 3 года назад

Peter Jackson is King.

@birlove1471 3 года назад

Please let DelToro make the AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS as he wants in his lifetime with no studio intervention. Please please pleasssseeeee ppllllleeeessseee. Outside of Kubrick, I can't envisage a more suitable man to bring this terrifying story to the big screen. Also, please keep it R Rated. No point if not R rated. Please pleasseee plllleassseeee.

@thedeadd.c.207 2 года назад

Kubrick couldn't even direct a good adaptation of the Shining. No fucking way he could make a good adaptation of any Lovecraft work. Kubrick's shining is a good movie in its own right. But it's a dog shit adaptation.

@birlove1471 2 года назад

I loved the Shining movie in and of itself anyways, I get that he took artistic liberties with it, which is well documented and I know Kings opinion of it too. Anyways, I just felt Kubrick could of done it, but DelToro is the man for this job and I really hope it gets green lite with no studio intervention crap. I mean when you watch Pan's Labyrinth and then consider what he could do with ATMOM story, my mouth waters.

@thebusinessintelshow4076 3 года назад

At the Mountains of Madness would be an excellent movie project!!!

@leonkenedy2988 11 месяцев назад

Del Toro, dare I say it can definitely bring justice to At the Mountain of Madness. I trust he will be able to get it done if someone had the guts to greenlit the production already. The day that the Mountain of Madness get made and release on theater is the day that I will jump to the Heaven from joy and sheer manly tears.

@David-dc3nk 7 месяцев назад

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.

@GordonBeckles Год назад

At 63 years old, I've just re- read "At The Mountains Of Madness" again (50 years after it terrified me as a kid), and as uncommercial as it is... ...I say write it, make it, do it, Do It DO IT. It would work... for me! 😁

@dragonstone6594 3 месяца назад

It sounds amazing! Would love to see it.

@jimmyhass4900 2 года назад

I don't care who stars in it as long as Deltoro is directing it. That is one of my favorite stories ever and he is one of the best visionary directors ever. This needs to happen!

@williamkarbala5718 3 года назад

So funny they made this video I just bought Lovecraft's books the other day. And I was just thinking how much mountains of madness reminded me of Prometheus. Lol

@kdrkdr5123 7 месяцев назад

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!

@GeoffNelson 3 года назад

This would have been my favorite movie ever made

@kosh2001 2 года назад

Thanks for the break down!

@johnbuckleyjnr32 3 года назад

Del toro spoke of wanting to making a frankenstein movie for years. Can you imagine how good his adaption would be with doug Jones as the monster.

@thedeadd.c.207 2 года назад

It's Strange isn't it how Hollywood is dead set on remaking all the classics. Yet they won't let Del Toro direct remake of the classics of horror. Just imagine a Del Toro directed remake of The Creature from the Black Lagoon, again with Doug Jones as the creature.

@denisematthews6215 3 года назад

I would like to see that film happen one day! Something unique!

@BarryBBryson 3 года назад

I absolutely want At the Mountains of Madness filmed. And I am not the only one. I'll even help del Toro if he wants.

@cassylady2008 2 года назад

yes yes a thousand times YES!!!

@TheFallen1986 3 года назад

I Hope this Will see Light One day...damn shame tho 😔 And yeeees it need to be R rated...

@snaileymac7965 3 года назад

OMG yesssss I would LOVE to see this film come to fruition. These are the two to do it. It unfortunately HAASSS to be rated R or beyond to do justice but my god please let these filmmakers do it 🥺🥺🥺

@jtcob8486 3 года назад

Personally I think the leaked script was only made to appease the studio along with the casting of Cruise and not what del Toro originally wanted (del Toro said that a love story can't work in Lovecraft yet he put one in the leaked script), because the script sounds so... *Not* del Toro and more like a studio exec who only skimmed through the wikipedia page for ATMoM.

@jayhernandez355 Год назад

Hell yes I wanna to see mountains of madness

@bogart7847 Год назад

Well, with Cabinet of Curiosities coming to life one can hope Del Toro will not shy away from bringing At the Mountain of Madness to life

@MikeJohnson-yh4lg 3 года назад

Not only was James Cameron on board ATMOM, but so was Industrial Light & Magic. I think it would have been amazing, and after seeing PROMETHEUS, it’s almost sickening that that dumpster fire got made instead of ATMOM.

@nivekv-halla4752 3 года назад

We can blame Ridley Scott for that 😎😎

@valerieplacial4615 3 года назад

Prometheus is fantastic, you're trippin

@jtcob8486 3 года назад

This (with a different script) and His Frankenstein Dualogy/Trilogy I would die to see.

@johnjamesleahy4065 3 года назад

i can kinda guess the definition but i wanna hear you say it and how to spell "ubiquitous" or something like thaty?

@spacecrimebeatz 2 года назад

Yay so happy to hear hes making this as a series on Netflix!!!

@thedeadd.c.207 2 года назад

It's fake, it's not happening.

@David-dc3nk 8 месяцев назад

No, there is the possibility GDT may make At the Mountains of Madness as a small animated film for Netflix.

@Crusader-Ramos45 2 месяца назад

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.

@eddobbs2075 Год назад

I hope it gets made because I think it would be awesome

@paranoyd70 3 года назад

The problem with Promethius wasn't its "creation themes"...it was that it WASN'T anything like its forebears (Alien). Nobody would want to see a Nightmare on Elm St without Freddy, or a Halloween movie without Michael Myers, and NOBODY wants to see an Alien movie without the Aliens.

@David-dc3nk 8 месяцев назад

Don't give up Guillermo!

@pathatfield2543 3 года назад

Yes,I want to see this movie happen.

@johnnyrayh5858 2 года назад

So sad this hasn’t happened, such a good story.

@Domzdream 2 года назад

My heart broke after hearing he discontinued the Cthulhu film. But recently, I've posed a random question - will Del Toro ever make Mountains of Madness ? To which I saw a reply - YES! He's abck into making plans for making this movie! FINGERS CROSSED! My heart sored with joy after readign this guys!

@ethanhughes7462 3 года назад

love these videos but so sad none of these films were made

@leinadreign3510 3 года назад

RU-vid Title visible: Guillermo del Toro's AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS What? He is making it finally! I want to click! real title addition: -The Movie that almost was Nooooooo! You betrayed me!

@edvaira6891 3 года назад

It also didn’t help that a Universal had just blown $150 million on an R-Rated horror movie with THE WOLFMAN which stiffed after release in early 2010

@scottduncan5525 Год назад

i think it still in the works now with Netflix and his Pinocchio movie being kind of a big hit

@ME-ty8rv Год назад

Still hoping ... and waiting ...

@CesaristChannel Год назад

I recommend Gou Tanabe’s “At the Mountains of Madness” for a true and awesome graphic novel adaptation.

@wf8zj 11 месяцев назад

I really wish he makes it, I know it would be epic. Big fan of Lovecraft, it can’t be a flop

@David-dc3nk 6 месяцев назад

It'll flop because it will be on Netflix.

@daneshansigamoney6215 2 года назад

Del Toro would have made a masterful adaption

@beacondog2440 3 года назад

I want this so much

@Ray30 3 года назад

I would love to see this movie made.

@sollytom6266 3 года назад

I would love to see a big-budget, reasonably faithful adaptation of Lovecraft.

@redrumax 2 года назад

Del Toro and Tom Cruise? orgasmic.

@kimwelch4652 9 месяцев назад

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.

@David-dc3nk 8 месяцев назад

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.

@irishbatman2917 10 месяцев назад

It's depressing to think this project may never be made.

@KEVMAN7987 3 года назад

That Lovecraft children's cartoon gave me nightmares when I came across it on tv.

@MoejoTheGreat 3 года назад

That's what Lovecraft is supposed to do.

@mjmorrill081 3 года назад

At the mountains of madness was my first Lovecraft story, please make the film?!

@fratercontenduntocculta8161 3 года назад

I'm so happy that of all his stories, people universally agree this one is his best. I'd watch just to see the six foot tall albino penguins.

@sophiem1792 3 года назад

I'm waiting for years to see that marvelous story on screen....

@MrMegatron85 Год назад

Sometimes I like to daydream about winning the Powerball just so I can become a movie producer and fund At The Mountains of Madness

@MrMegatron85 Год назад

And while I'm at it, a REAL Doom movie

@boynamedalexxx 2 года назад

Del Toro said he’s gonna try to make this happen one more time-maybe this time it’ll work.

@elijahblechman8633 Год назад

I'd really wish that someday we'd see it adaptation of Dunwich Horror. My personal favorite Lovecraft story. Although it probably be the hardest one to adapt.

@SogoTX Год назад

Richard Stanley (Hardware, Color Out of Space) WAS going to do a solid attempt at it... But a, "Me too" allegation from his Ex-Wife effectively ended his film career, and any plans to finish his Lovecraft Trilogy (Color, Dunwich and ???). Have you seen the 1970 version starring Dean Stockwell? It is a decent attempt at putting the Dunwich story to film. ;)

@lesliewinchester8225 2 года назад

I would rather see this made with Tom Cruise than MI 8 or 9. I morphed the story into a nightmare sequence though and changed it to flip into why did they go on the journey and leave their wives. I saw it with Tom and Robert Downey Jr as the main characters, David Swimmer being a part of the crew that gets killed off early.

@julysfire 2 года назад

I would pay very good money to see his At the Mountains of Madness movie.

@josoffat7649 3 года назад

oh damn that had potential for a good lovecraft movie, cosmic horror is a tricky one to pull off

@steverlfs 3 года назад

I am scratching at the ground to see this film! Can somebody please make a second good Lovecraft film? Color Out of Space was dead on. How about a good telling of The Dunwich Horror?

@elbarto6668 3 года назад

Nice

@m.g.frosty5935 3 года назад

I wish he could make At Mountain of Madness, I bealive it would be great. Because the best thing what you can do is something what you are fan of and not only for money. I would say movie At Mountain of Madness from Guillermo del Toro would be MASTERPIECE I bealive... but personaly not with Tom Cruise, please any body else but not with Tom Cruise :D

@HistoryNerd8 9 месяцев назад

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

@paranoyd70 3 года назад

I hope this eventually gets made, with ALL the same talent, same story, and same R-rating. If they change things, then they will likely screw it all up. This whole concept seems incredibly good. And ONLY Del-Toro can pull off Lovecraft...Nobody else will be able to.