Guillermo del Toro Talks Lovecraft – ‘Mountains Of Madness’
June 5, 2010 by tcgames · Leave a Comment
Out with Tolkien, in with Lovecraft? Guillermo del Toro talks about an adaptation of At The Mountains Of Madness…
With Guillermo del Toro’s directing duties on The Hobbit now out of the question due to scheduling issues, one question immediately arises: what project will take its place?
One possibility is another book adaptation, this time H. P. Lovecraft’s icy 1931 novella, At The Mountains Of Madness. It’s a film del Toro has been expressing an interest for at least three years. In a 2007 interview with First Showing, the director said, “If I had the freedom to choose and the chance to hold it until its done, I’d do Mountains right away.”
Earlier this week, Aint It Cool News caught up with the director for a lengthy discussion about his current project, SF horror Splice, a film on which he’s producer, with Vincenzo Natali directing. Towards the end of the interview, meanwhile, del Toro once again expressed his enthusiasm for getting a Mountains Of Madness adaptation off the ground.
“Mountains is exactly the movie I would like to do,” del Toro said. “It would push buttons, and it’s extreme in many areas. It’s a hard R-rated, big production tentpole in the genre of horror. What I love about tentpole horror – which is not done much anymore, if at all – is that there was a time when you could see something like Alien or The Shining or The Thing. Movies that came not as a B-movie product of a studio, but as an A, tentpole, big release, high-end production like The Exorcist, and so on and so forth.”
Del Toro’s reference to The Thing is an interesting one. Not only did John Carpenter’s 1982 display echoes of H. P. Lovecraft’s story – both are set among the frozen wastelands of the Antarctic, with desperate men fighting off hideous, tentacled monsters – The Thing was also one of the bloodiest Hollywood studio pictures released at that point. The adaptation of Mountains, del Toro suggests, would be no different. Read more
Boom! Studios Announces Necronomicon Mini-Series
June 7, 2008 by admin · Leave a Comment
Official Press Release
BOOM! Studios is proud to announce NECRONOMICON, a new four-issue mini-series based around H.P. Lovecraft’s “Necronomicon,” the religious text featured in dozens of Lovecraft’s short stories and novellas. Hitting store shelves in August, BOOM!’s NECRONOMICON is written by long-time fan-favorite William Messner-Loebs, with gruesome interior art by Andrew Ritchie and scream-inducing covers by J.K. Woodward.
“Lovecraft believed – and he was right – that the scariest things are those least understood. Thus he kept everything as vague as he could – the mythos, the monsters, even the horrid and grisly fates of his heroes,” said NECRONOMICON writer William Messner-Loebs. “Well, my job, given me by the esteemed BOOM!, is to describe, explicate, explain and anatomize said book and lay its mysteries bare, all whilst causing as much havoc as I can.”
NECRONOMICON follows the story of Henry Said, an Arabic college student in 1920s Arkham, Mass. who is hired by cultists to find the forbidden tome and obtain the dark powers of old. In the course of his adventures, Henry travels the world as he traces the footsteps of the Necronomicon’s writer, Abdul Alhazard, and makes a… dark discovery.
Lovecraft’s works have frightened and inspired generations of fantasy and horror readers, and NECRONOMICON will bring the same horrific adventures fans know and love in the way that only BOOM! can deliver.
“The terror of Lovecraft’s creations comes from their implications – the idea that man is insignificant and small,” said BOOM! Studios Editorr-in-Chief Mark Waid. “These elder gods exist outside our perceptions, and nothing we do matters because we are just a footnote in their texts. I’m excited about NECRONOMICON because William Messner-Loebs understands that tension in Lovecraft’s works, and J.K. Woodward’s covers and Andrew Richie’s art bring that to life.”
With the publication of NECRONOMICON, BOOM! Studios continues to redefine Lovecraft’s vision with today’s top talent, following up on the successes of their fan-favorite ongoing series FALL OF CTHULHU and their best-selling anthology, CTHULHU TALES.
NECRONOMICON #1 features a cover by J.K. Woodward, Diamond item order code: JUN083748.
About BOOM! Studios
BOOM! Studios (http://www.boom-studios.com) is a unique new publishing house specializing in high-profile projects across a wide variety of different genres from some of the industry’s biggest talents. In its inaugural year, Wizard Magazine named BOOM! “Best New Publisher.” Founded by the creator of the TV show EUREKA, Andrew Cosby, and his partner Ross Richie, BOOM! Studios continues to be on the leading edge of comic and graphic novel publishing.
