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Guillermo Del Toro loses yet again. Battleship and Monopoly still getting made
DrIanMalcolm
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Guillermo Del Toro's last film was Hellboy 2, which was released in 2008 to middling reviews. He then signed on to write/direct The Hobbit, which he did two years of pre-production for until finally giving up because MGM's bankruptcy problems. Finally, things started to look up because Del Toro announced that he was writing and directing an adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's At The Mountain's of Madness and it would be a hard R, have a big budget ($150 million), have Ron Perlman in a supporting role, and be produced by James Cameron! Tom Cruise was even in talks to star as the main character.
But this was not to be.
Universal balked at financing a big-budgeted R-rated horror film so now the film is dead (The film would have to gross $500 million worldwide for the studio to make its money back). It looks like his next film will now be Pacific Rim with the synopsis of: “set in a future in which malevolent creatures threaten the earth, the planet must band together and use highly advanced technology to eradicate the growing menace.” Sounds like something he could make cool! Hopefully things work out for him this time!
But this was not to be.
Criterion Cast wrote:Earlier today, io9 got everyone’s hopes up by reporting that Guillermo Del Toro’s At The Mountains Of Madness would begin shooting this June. Then Mike Fleming over at Deadline came along and reported that Guillermo would be heading to Warner Bros to shoot “Pacific Rim” as his next film.
I know how personal this project was for Del Toro, since he has basically been preparing for this for over 15 years. You can head to my interview, to hear him discuss some of his thoughts on the project, and what might have been.
Earlier today, before the Deadline announcement, I e-mailed Del Toro to see if the June shoot date was in fact true, and he didn’t respond until just a few minutes ago, well after we all heard of it’s supposed end. This is what I got in my inbox:Me: I’m sure everyone is e-mailing you this question today, but is this June start date for Mountains of Madness true? Got your greenlight?
Guillermo: The opposite- Dead. – G
Universal balked at financing a big-budgeted R-rated horror film so now the film is dead (The film would have to gross $500 million worldwide for the studio to make its money back). It looks like his next film will now be Pacific Rim with the synopsis of: “set in a future in which malevolent creatures threaten the earth, the planet must band together and use highly advanced technology to eradicate the growing menace.” Sounds like something he could make cool! Hopefully things work out for him this time!
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That's it
That was our last chance for a good Lovecraft adaptation
which is ridiculous
It's called Battleship
It really is too bad the stuff I like is not close enough to what the market likes. Then again, the market doesn't really like movies in theaters much at all these days, does it?
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better
bit.ly/2XQM1ke
it's based off the game?
why not a game like, monopoly. a tale of a progressive era real estate tycoon and shit
Good news for you because Ridley Scott is directing a Monopoly movie
Maybe it's better to just leave the Lovecraft stuff alone. Making it true to the original wouldn't work with modern audiences and modernizing it is hazardous at best.
And Disney World is nowhere in sight.
Roughly. Marketing costs aren't included in the production budget and they're usually pretty sizable, and it would be for this in order to get people to see an R-rated horror film. Studios only get roughly half of the gross box-office (theaters get other half). Also the prints for the films themselves aren't included in the production budget. I'm sure I'm forgetting some smaller details, but you get the idea
So horrid an idea that I googled for the purpose of seeking truth in the matter.
Suspense!
Will the artillery shell aimed at B-6 be a hit? I hope not! That's where Claire is. She dressed as a man to prove women can be sailors too. No one will ever know of her heroism if she sinks to the bottom of the icy North Atlantic.
$500 million is almost as much as all his directed films have made.
I was kind of glad that he wasn't making The Hobbit after I read a long story on him in The New Yorker recently.
Of course seeing this makes me think of I am Legend which had a budget of $150 million and made over $500 million but it was PG-13.
So in the end I don't know.
In the movie they are going to fight aliens.
it's just not fair
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhI0OVs_zj0
how the hell is liam neeson involved in this
what the heck
Re-Animator isn't too bad.
He wants to get with Rihanna.
Also read this if you want to be depressed about the state of the film industry today
an admirable goal
If that's close to true, it might have something to do with his wife dying
Which ties back to my point regarding Rihanna.
Perhaps, perhaps