Guillermo del Toro Shares Never-Before-Seen Test Footage for At The Mountains of Madness
The CGI was made by Industrial Light and Magic.
Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro has revealed a never-before-seen CGI test for At The Mountains of Madness – what was meant to be an adaptation of H. P. Lovecraft's story. The movie never made it, but at least we can see what one of the monsters done by Industrial Light and Magic looked like.
At The Mountains of Madness tells the story of a group of explorers who traveled to Antarctica in 1930 and discovered an ancient civilization and the secrets of the Earth's past.
Guillermo del Toro tried to recreate the tale in 2006 and 2010, but the movie didn't get the green light. Last year, the filmmaker said he pitched At The Mountains of Madness to Netflix.
"Take a wild guess which were the first projects I presented. I went through the cupboards and found [The Count of] Monte Cristo, [At the] Mountains of Madness. Those were a couple of the ones I presented first. The thing with Mountains is, the screenplay I co-wrote 15 years ago is not the screenplay I would do now, so I need to do a rewrite. Not only to scale it down somehow but because back then I was trying to bridge the scale of it with elements that made it somewhat be able to go through the studio machinery."
Now he wants to make "a far more esoteric, weirder, smaller version" of his original film. Perhaps the footage he revealed will help him promote the idea.
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