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Lovecraft, un monument de la littérature fantastique
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Lovecraft, un monument de la littérature fantastique
Cameron told Wired that At the Mountains of Madness is
…going to be an epically scaled horror film and we haven’t seen anything like that in a really long time — I guess since Aliens.
The thing about Lovecraft is that he left a lot to the imagination,” …He never told you what they looked like. He managed to create a sense of creeping horror without specifics…Guillermo brings an eye for design that is so original and so quirky and so steeped in the lore of movie design and horror design, but always fresh and unexpected. Frankly, I just want to see what he comes up with and I want to enable the nuts and bolts of the production so he doesn’t have to worry about that. I want to help him how to work in 3-D.
Del Toro did an interview with the Los Angeles Times in which he stated he’s “actively engaged with the project” and last week had a “summit meeting” with Universal. At that meeting, he showed the studio executives all of his concepts and models for the movie, as well as a finished script. He hopes to start filming in June.
As for Cameron’s involvement, it is actually pretty substantial. Not only was he at the aforementioned meeting, he’s still giving del Toro notes.
In his subtle style he said to me, ‘I have a few notes, but I have one fatal flaw [that I see in the script].’ He pointed out one thing that was big. I’ve been thinking about this for 35 years, and he pointed out something I’d never seen.
At the Mountains of Madness is based on a novella by H.P. Lovecraft in which men on an expedition to Antarctica find a brand new city that houses a never before seen, evil species. No one has officially been cast yet, though del Toro stated there’s a part in the film for Ron Perlman, and names such as James McAvoy and even Tom Cruise have been floated around. Del Toro himself hasn’t directed a movie in a few years and for good reason. First, he was working on The Hobbit and now he’s putting everything he has into this film. Just read what he had to say about it a few months back. (He had a lot more to say too, click here to check it out.)
I’m putting all the chips I have accumulated in 20 years as a director, betting them on a single number. This is not just a movie and then move on to the next. It’s do or die time for me. Cameron does his movies like that every time and I find it surprising the way people judge success in retrospect, like, of course, I would have done that. Avatar was the largest gamble, again, so were Titanic and Terminator 2. I love that type of filmmaker, with those gigantic stainless steel balls, Alec Baldwin-style in Glengarry Glen Ross, fucking clanking together. You can’t explain success in retrospect.
Oh we’re very, very actively pre-producing the film right now with Universal. The design work is phenomenal, both the three-dimensional and two-dimensional design work, the physical maquettes, the CG test scenes; the artwork is phenomenal. The fans certainly won’t want for a visual feast with this film. But there’s [still] a bunch of number-crunching and “How you gonna do it?” and “How you gonna make it?”; “Where you gonna do it?” All that stuff.
One word, one man – Guillermo. We’ve been friends for twenty years. We’ve been trying to work together, really, for that entire time. And it has never quite congealed. We’re both Lovecraft fans. Me from my college days, when I discovered Lovecraft. I think I read everything he wrote in about a month. I powered through it. And if anybody can bring Lovecraft to the screen it’s gonna be Del Toro.
He’s got a real vision for the film. It’s very, very well-developed in his mind. You know, I’m just there to facilitate his vision. I don’t have any strong sense of authorship; zero sense of authorship. I’m just there to try to get it made and help him do the movie that’s in his head.
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