Guillermo
del Toro finally won an Oscar. About damn time and, God love him, he
asked to check the envelope because after last year its worth
checking.
So now
Guillermo del Toro is Oscar Winning Director Guillermo del Toro.
Hopefully this means he'll get another shot at an old passion project
he's had to shut down twice already: his adaptation of H.P.
Lovecraft's At The Mountains Of Madness.
The most annoying reason he shut the project down was because
Prometheus was
(apparently) based in part on that story.
I
think we can agree that was not necessary or something the world of
cinematic art needed to have happen.
Fuck
Prometheus. If nothing
else whilst playing through Pokémon
HeartGold I needed reminding
there are things I despise more than Johto.
Did
you know that James Cameron was going to work on del Toro's At
The Mountains Of Madness and
bring his Avatar 3D
technology with him? That was going to happen and then it didn't
because of bloody Prometheus.
I
want to see what del Toro, a man who has such a fantastic
understanding of horror in so many of its form, does with Lovecraft.
I want to see a good Lovecraft movie before I die and there is a
truly fantastic director who wants to make one based on probably the
best short story you could choose to adapt (not necessarily the best
Lovecraft story but probably the one in which there is the most
actual action to film instead of people sitting and reading letters).
I adore del Toro's work andit is so frustrating that half the time
you hear about him its because a projevct has fallen through.
And
its been years since bloody Prometheus.
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