Monday, May 7, 2012 11:39AM - By Travis Woods
After 2008’s Hellboy II: The Golden Army, director Guillermo Del Toro’s next project was set to be the ambitious cinematic adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness, a 1936 novella about human scientists discovering evidence of ancient alien civilizations visiting Earth. Unfortunately, Universal cancelled the project, citing budgetary problems, and Del Toro moved on to the monster movie Pacific Rim, in which giant robots battle giant monsters in the future (yes, really). Recently, though, Del Toro made comments indicating that Prometheus’ nearly identical plot put the kibosh on Mountains.
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Tuesday, February 14, 2012 11:58AM - By Damon Houx
After years of being weighed down by The Hobbit and the headaches of waiting for that production to move forward, Guillermo Del Toro is wasting no more time. He’s in the midst of shooting Pacific Rim, and is now set up to do Beast – which, according to Variety, is a new take on the classic Beauty and the Beast legend as made famous cinematically by Jean Cocteau and Walt Disney. Harry Potter star Emma Watson is in final negotiations to be the lead.
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Friday, August 26, 2011 10:53AM - By Mali Elfman
Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark is an odd title for a film that gives you nothing but good reason to be afraid of the dark, but I guess that’s all part of the fun of it! There is a lot about this film that makes it a cliched horror film, the only difference is that there are some impressive A-list actors, interesting new monsters and a splash of Guillermo del Toro (interview) from time to time. The problem is, that this film asks you to suspend your beliefs in the wrong ways. Believing that monsters exists in basement and are after your teeth — awesome! Buying that human beings act the way they do in this move — failed movie magic. There were a lot of good things about this movie, but it loses its way about halfway in, making it a horror film that will likely not be remember. Find out why…
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Friday, July 22, 2011 1:36AM - By Mali Elfman
We had a chance to sit down once again with one of our favorites over at ScreenCrave and he had quite a lot to say about many projects in question as well as his love for filmmaking and film-watching. Mr. Guillermo del Toro himself who as well as partaking in almost every single panel at Comic-Con this year with a bad back was also willing to talk more intimately with the press, though, he see’s all of his fans in Hall H as his personally friends.
During our interview about his upcoming release Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark he also spoke many of the questions that we’ve been asking about, mainly Mountains of Madness (which he’ll never give up on and had the ring to prove!) and could possibly still be moved to do Hellboy 3 (as long as Ron Perlman can do it and isn’t too old). Check it our below…
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Wednesday, June 22, 2011 6:00PM - By Damon Houx
Much has been rumored about Quentin Tarantino‘s latest film Django Unchained, with Samuel L. Jackson and Christoph Waltz considered shoo-in’s for certain parts, and Leonardo DiCaprio supposedly circling the film’s bad guy role. Idris Elba tweeted something that suggested he was meeting with Quentin for the role, and – as The Hollywood Reporter announced – he’s instead going in for Guillermo Del Toro‘s Pacific Rim. Which supposedly puts Jamie Foxx front and center as the most like Django…
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Wednesday, March 9, 2011 10:39AM - By Krystal Clark
Yesterday we received confirmation from director Guillermo del Toro that he will NOT direct the Universal Pictures horror film At the Mountains of Madness. The studio didn’t feel comfortable bankrolling a project with an R rating and a $150 million budget. Their loss is Legendary Pictures’ gain because the studio had been courting del Toro to helm their feature Pacific Rim and today they’ve announced that that he’s officially on board!
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Tuesday, March 8, 2011 5:40PM - By Krystal Clark
At the Mountains of Madness has had a rollercoaster week and it’s only Tuesday! On Monday we heard two conflicting reports regarding the film, one came from producer Don Murphy and the other was speculation from a trade. Murphy stated that the film was ready to begin shooting in June with Tom Cruise set to star, while other reports claimed that Universal hadn’t even greenlit the project yet. If you were confused, you should have been. Nothing made any sense — until now. The man himself, Guillermo del Toro has put it in it writing and confirmed At the Mountains of Madness is dead.
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Monday, March 7, 2011 3:16PM - By Krystal Clark
Earlier today we wrote about Tom Cruise being confirmed to star in Guillermo del Toro’s next film, At the Mountains of Madness. Producer Don Murphy claims that the movie is set to begin shooting this June, but we’ve come across a conflicting report that negates his logic. According to Deadline, Madness hasn’t been given the greenlight by Universal and Legendary Pictures is competing with the studio to snag the director for their project Pacific Rim.
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Thursday, February 17, 2011 11:05AM - By Krystal Clark
Everyone’s favorite “real boy” is rearing his wooden head again with a new movie. Back in 2008 there was word that Guillermo del Toro was working on a darker, animated version of the classic fairytale Pinocchio. The news soon fell by the wayside when talk of his other projects began to surface including The Hobbit. Now according to Deadline, Pinocchio’s back in the forefront and del Toro has released some photos to prove it.
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