Cameron Says Guillermo Del Toro Has “A Real Vision” For AT THE MOUNTAIN OF MADNESS

Billion dollar Avatar filmmaker James Cameron serves as a producer of AT THE MOUNTAIN OF MADNESS adaptation which will be helmed by his amigo Guillermo Del Toro. Cameron previously said that this will be an “epically scaled horror film” and he strongly believed that nobody but GDT could pull this off. He spoke again recently, via FearNet, once again emphasizing why he thinks GDT is the right man for the job..

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.

When asked about how the project is coming along so far..

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.

GDT previously promised that this adaptation is a hard core R rated horror movie with a big budget
AT THE MOUNTAIN OF MADNESS has been a long time dream project for Guillermo Del Toro, the book originally published in 1936 was about a group of explorers in Antartica who stumble onto a group of creatures called “Elder Things” and what comes after that is terror after terror.