Del Toro Talks At The Mountains of Madness

 Guillermo del Toro's next film At The Mountains of Madness is quickly becoming one of my most anticipated new films in development. Being a massive fan of the writer/director/producer I've come to expect nothing but expertise in all things horror. So when he started adapting H.P. Lovecraft's thrilling horror novel I got excited. We started hearing casting rumors of actors such as James McAvoy and Tom Cruise. MTV was able to get del Toro to comment on one person he'd love to see in the film. Of course that would be Ron Perlman who has previously worked with Guillermo on four films (Hellboy 1-2, Blade 2, Cronos).

 "All I can tell you is if Ron Perlman is free, he will be in....I wrote a part for him. He read it and if everything falls in place, Ron Perlman has a role in it written specifically for him."

Also, Guillermo recently talked to the NYTimes about creating the look of his creatures for the film. He gets to work with a blank canvas since Lovecraft really left the imagery to the reader's imagination. 

"We've been designing for the last 3-weeks. It's being produced by James Cameron, who's been a friend for 20-years," del Toro said, "we have avoided working together until the time came for the right project. Obviously, the difference between the novella and the movie is that Lovecraft had a gift for making everything specifically ambiguous. He would say 'the leering face loaded with madness,’ or 'the evil perverse entity of unnamable'… everything was unnamable, indescribable. When you're reading you go,'Whoa!' your brain fills those spaces. For every creature, everyone has a secret mental image of what those creatures look like. It's going to be impossible to please everyone."

"I've been thinking of those monsters for twenty years. Fortunately for me no one has done monsters like the ones I'm doing. In all the movies ever made there's never been monsters like the ones we're doing. About two weeks ago we were visited by Dennis Muren. He looked at the designs, and he turned to us and said, 'No one has seen monsters like this ever.' I was like, [boyish grin] 'Yeah!' I was happy and vindicated and all that."