Forget 'The Thing', roll on the Elder Things...

[major_clanger]

From SFX's feature on Hellboyand Guillemero del Toro: high on del Toro's wish-list of future projects is a "completely faithful" adaptation of H P Lovecraft's At The Mountains of Madness.

Oh yes. Yes yes yes yes yes. On the basis of Hellboy I can definitely say that if you want someone to do (a) completely faithful, and (b) Cthulhoid, del Toro is your man. Let's just hope someone gives him the dosh to do a really good job of it. Oh, and if he wants an end title track, he could do a lot worse than this one...

MC

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[greengolux.livejournal.com]

Actually, yes, I can see this working. I heard very good things about Del Toro's The Devil's Backbone; from the sound of it the tone he acheived in that would sit pretty well with a Lovecraftian subject matter. And thumbs up to the "completely faithful" intentions. As long as he stays faithful to Lovecraft's tactic of letting what you don't know about scare you - only revealing the horrors in the most minimal of glimpses, designed to get your imagination going...

I really must look up more of Del Toro's back catalogue. And see Hellboy.