It’s been over 10 years since I posted that writer/director Guillermo del Toro hadn’t given up on filming an adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft‘s 1931 novella “At the Mountains of Madness” that was serialized in Astounding Stories (February, March, and April 1936).
Just in the past week, Collider reported that del Toro was planning a stop-motion film based on “Mountains.” That was pretty exciting sounding, and I was about to post something on it.
But, del Toro quickly corrected that article in a tweet:
I don’t, really- just a pull quote they did. But it would be nice… https://t.co/GfGY9j2P30
— Guillermo del Toro (@RealGDT) December 1, 2022
That’s a shame. A stop-motion version could be very cool. It would certainly be different from his original 2011 live-action project.
Early in November, del Toro gave us a short peek at what might have been from that project. He posted on Instagram a special-effects test of possibly an Old One.
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Until del Toro has a chance to project Lovecraft onto the big screen, you can watch a pair of stories by Lovecraft — “Pickman’s Model” (Weird Tales, October 1927) and “Dreams in the Witch House” (Weird Tales, July 1933) — on the small screen in the first season of Netflix’s Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities. The series also includes another pulp horror tale, Henry Kuttner‘s “The Graveyard Rats” (Weird Tales, March 1936).
Not only is “At the Mountains of Madness” still up in the air, but so is a second season of Cabinet of Curiosities.
