Coverart for H.P Lovecraft's AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS
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Del Toro Talks MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS

Director Guillermo del Toro recently hosted a set of journalists on the set of his sequel, HELLBOY II: THE GOLDEN ARMY, where he fielded some questions about his future. Ryan Rotten from Shock Til You Drop asked the director on his confirmed project, H.P Lovecraft's AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS.

"I wish I knew, but Universal has acquired it, which is a great thing because it was in limbo, and I have, together with Michael, self-financed the designs and maquettes and everything, but we'll see. It's R-rated, it's expensive and it doesn't have a happy ending. I think that big-scale horror, big tentpole horror, which you used to have with 'Alien,' 'The Shining,' 'The Exorcist' before everyone thought horror needs to be this or that and pre-conceptualized, I think big tentpole like that should be back at some point in life, so I'm patiently waiting my turn."

"If I had the freedom to choose and the chance to hold it until its done, I'd do 'Mountains' right away," he continued, "but what I learned in the horrible years in between 'Cronos' and 'Mimic' and 'Mimic' and 'Devil's Backbone' is that if I did that, it takes me four years to get a movie off the ground, and it never happened in the order. I wrote 'Spanky: Mephisto's Bridge' right after 'Cronos' and it was a beautiful script, then I wrote 'Monte Cristo' then I wrote 'List of Seven.' None of them happened; they haven't happened yet, so what I understand now is that if I keep four or five things that I truly love in the fire, one of them becomes true."

The director was also asked about rumors regarding him directing an update to a Universal classic, something like Frankenstein. Check out his answer here.