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Dude!

Have you actually looked at Ol' Jim.
Kissing that beard?

Gross.

And isn't Cthulu the size of a planet?

As much as I love del Toro, I just don't think the story will transition to screen well. It's all about description and my creepy imagination - I don't know how they'll convey the terror of the story. And 3D won't help.

In any case, an Antarctic plateau containing an ancient city of a race that predates man?

Man, they're stealing the plot of AvP? Where's the creativity these days...

Y'know, now that I think back I'm pretty sure I ended up here after doing internet searches for Cthulu. Godtopus -- Cthulu -- there are similarities.

At the Mountains of Madness is a great story; the tense build-up -- death of the first party -- the dogs -- the temple. It's all really cool, and Del Toro has a perfect creative mind to adapt this.

Let's be honest, does ANYTHING benefit from 3-D? Except maybe animated movies,like Avatar? (face it, that's all that damn movie was). Just make it stop already.

There is a very short Lovecraft story that I consider one of the scariest stories I've ever read. I can't remember the name but it's about the guards on the wall of a city by a swamp being lulled into dream so that the city can be quietly invaded. The story keeps jumping between what is happening and what the dreaming guards think is happening. There is just something about that story that haunted me for days.

I am ECSTATIC that Del Toro is finally doing Mountains of Madness. I know he has had plans for years for this and his original works always blow away anything he is hired to do. On a side note, anyone played "Call of Cthulu: Dark Corners of the Earth" for the original XBox? I picked it up a couple weeks ago at a used store. So far, it's damn creepy even with the dated graphics.

I'm a huge Lovecraft fan so I'm excited but I don't see this movie doing a whole lot at the box office which could kill further big budget Lovecraft adaptations. I've got my finger crossed.

if this pulls Del T away from the Drood project, faces will be murdered in the face.

Umm yeah, what Ranylt said. So eloquent.

@Chugga

That was my thought too. Um, Alien vs. Predator, anyone? But really, Paul W.S. Anderson

Ah, who am I kidding? There is no hope.

I think it could be well done. The H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society did a great job turning it into a radio broadcast special a few years ago. Some parts may be drawn out, but he's never been afraid of chopping up discoveries and spreading the realization across the film.

I obviously meant "sat" rather than "sad". There is no sad here. Only awesomeness.

"I can't remember the name but it's about the guards on the wall of a city by a swamp being lulled into dream so that the city can be quietly invaded. The story keeps jumping between what is happening and what the dreaming guards think is happening."

Perhaps "Polaris", which just has one guard lulled to sleep by the star Polaris, allowing ancestors of Eskimos to overrun the city of Olathoe in the far northern land of Lomar. The narrator is in a 1920 house by a swamp seemingly dreaming of a past life, but believes this modern setting is a dream he is having while sleeping on duty in ancient Lomar.

There aren't many good Lovecraft Adaptations true, but is At the Mountains of Madness a good place to start? I mean, half the story is Lovecraft droning on about how terrible the city looks to the point of driving the narrator crazy. Of course, that's a rule for just about every Lovecraft story, but it seems excessive in this one. I swear he uses the word cyclopean 50 times.

It's not a very good Lovecraft story; it feels more like a prologue to his other stories about the Elder gods. Why not do The Whisperer in the Darkness? It's more of a solid stand alone story that still has the whole comsmic space alien horror thing going on.

Ron Howard? seriously?

"Oh hey, Picasso is unavailable to paint your portrait right now, but we got Thomas Kincaid instead, is that cool?"

(same exact thing)