Guillermo Del Toro Talks PACIFIC RIM And Explains The Ill-Fated AT THE MOUNTAIN OF MADNESS

Universal decided they didn’t want to do the $150 Million, R-rated AT THE MOUNTAIN OF MADNESS adaptation, that had Tom Cruise interested and so Guillermo Del Toro move on to PACIFIC RIM and what fans wanted to know was what GDT thought of all this. Via Deadline, the director who loves monster and creatures and he explained the whole situation with AT THE MOUNTAIN OF MADNESS…

“Definitely, closing Tom’s deal was in their hands. He was without a doubt, absolutely in favor of being in the movie. We met extensively, both in Canada and the U.S., dozens of times,” said del Toro. “Final polishes of the screenplay met with his approval. Closing the deal is not something that was in my hands. They needed to close it corporately.”

“As far as the movie grossing that much, obviously I’m not impartial, but I have to believe that with 3D, Tom Cruise, Jim Cameron, the scope of Lovecraft’s novel that is one of the best regarded and most widely known works, I would venture that it could absolutely have been done,” he said to Deadline. “I think the ‘R’ should be worn like a badge of merit in promoting the movie. To say, this is not a gory movie, not a movie full of profanity or violence, but it’s really intense movie.”

“The only thing I know about Mountain is, I do not want it to be bloody, I do not want it to be crass, but I want it to be intense as possible,” he said. “Ultimately, I think the MPAA could rule the movie PG-13 because the movie and the book are not gory. If that is the outcome, fine. But I don’t want to put the PG-13 on paper.”

When asked if he’ll get around to doing AT THE MOUNTAIN OF MADNESS in the near future..

“I’ve have learned in the last few years that God laughs as we make plans,”

About PACIFIC RIM..

“We started developing PACIFIC RIM a while ago with the mad passion and enthusiasm of a project unwatched and unchecked by politics or comparisons. We designed and shepherded the movie we want to make,”

“We start shooting in September and we hit the ground running because we are so in sync. My partnership with Legendary represents, both in scale and creative demands, a huge step forward for me.”

“People got it confused with the ‘Godzilla’ movie a few months ago but we cleared that up,”
“I can say the scope and imagination that have been outlined in it are absolutely appealing to me. I cannot say more, it’s not the time.”