Guillermo Del Toro is talking not about his new film, but his hopes for a new, new film. Thick in pre-production on the comic book adaptation HELLBOY, the BLADE 2 director recently talked up his following project, an adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS.
"We're writing right now, my partner Matthew Robbins and I, on the weekends," Del Toro said. "I work on HELLBOY Monday through Friday then he comes from San Francisco. We lock ourselves up on the weekends, work on the story. He's going to do the screenplay while I'm gone... There's a huge aspect of Lovecraft that has never been captured on film. Never. What we're doing, is we're trying to preserve if you read the book, the book is 90-percent atmosphere. It's not a book about a concrete act and there's not an arc, there's not an escalation. There's no structure really, so what we're doing is we're trying to capture the Lovecraft sensibility and feeling, but putting in the coolest f**king monsters ever committed to film."
But don't count on seeing them. Said Del Toro about those monsters, "That's one thing you will not seem them that clearly for most of the movie, but you will get glimpses. The whole movie, the main plot takes place during an arctic storm so when they step out of their little tents and it's limbo. It's white. And something comes out of the white and grabs them. There's a great scene where a guy falls under the ice and he's drowning, but the creatures are above. So, you never get a three hundred and sixty degree panorama of the creature, but you get a lot of the feeling."
HELLBOY, Del Toro's latest, is set to shoot later this year.
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