The science fiction movie that killed Guillermo Del Toro in the mountains of adaptation

There is no movie I am more excited in 2025 by Guillermo Del Toro “Frankenstein”. the A luxury trailer hints that “Frankstein” from Del Toro can be the real adaptation so far for Modern Prometheus, “Modern Prometheus”, But he is also unambiguous. This is considered Part of an objective trilogy with “Qabous alley” and “Pinocio”.

Del Toro is one of the most prominent managers of imagination and horror that we work today. “Frankstein” will return it to directing direct science fiction for the first time since 2013 “Pacific Ocean”. (“Water shape” may have a thickness man as a leading figure, but it is definitely a fairy tale than science fiction.)

Besides “Frankenstein”, there is another classic science fiction story that Del Toro has long wanted to adapt: ​​HP lovecraft “in the mountains of madness. Posted in 1936 (before the death of lovecraft), the story follows a university research team in Antarctica. When some explorers are brutally found, geologist William Dyer and his student Danvurg and coinciding with prehistoric city, are home to things of the elderly (also known as the Great) that followed the Earth about a billion years before human civilization. The older civilization was destroyed by Shoggoths, an isolated race from the Shapeshifters they created and which rose against them. Dyer and Danfworth (the events of the novel were engraved in the first person by Dyer), but Danfworth is irreversibly driven.

Guillermo Del Toro has been trying to make “in the mountains of madness” since the early first decade of the twentieth century, but it did not find a house in Warner Bruce in 2010, he managed to make progress in Universal; James Cameron (who first read “ALIA” thanks to his friendship with Del Toro) It would produce and Tom Cruise was the best choice for the stars. After that, the film collapsed again due to fears of the budget and Del Toro refused to budge the R.

Del Toro has a lot of unrealized projects, from a The live adaptation of manga Naoki Orasawa “Al -Wahsh”, “,”, “Monster”, To the third movie “Hellboy”. For a while, “Frankstein” had fallen into hell development. “In the mountains of madness,” it remains something that Del Toro fans want to see, especially after that Del Toro shared some CGI test clips from the project in 2022.

But there is another reason that the director stopped trying to make “in the mountains of madness” after the 2011 cancellation. The following year, another fictional movie appeared with a similar hypothesis: Ridley Scott’s “Alien” Prequel, “Prometheus”.

On April 30, 2012, shortly before the “Prometheus” version in June, From the bull published in the Bull Films Forum The film is likely to be “a long stop – if not a disappearance – from (” in the mountains of madness “).

“Prometheus began filming a while ago-at a time when we were in the pre-production stage on the“ Pacific Ocean ”. The same title gave me a pause knowing that“ alien ”was severely affected by lovecraft and Novella this time.

Now that “Prometheus” has been released long ago, it is clear that Del Toro was right to money. The Scott movie is located in the early 22th century and follows astronauts, tracking archaeological evidence of ancient civilization on Earth. They reach the planet LV-223, which carries an old structure built by foreign engineers, creative in the human race. But the intentions of the engineers towards their children are not very charitable and it was better to leave the secrets in their temple. As the description line says to “Prometheus”: “The search for our beginning can lead to our end.”

Scott and writer “Prometheus”, Damon Lindlaov, was withdrawn from the book “Cars of the gods” in 1968? By Eric von Denkin, the root of the theory of “ancient astronauts” that humans were raised by foreign visitors in the prehistoric period. But there is a lot of lovecraft in “Prometheus” as well. The full hypothesis of researchers who are investigating an ancient foreign city that comes out of “in the mountains of madness.”

Creating life is also a major topic in both stories; We created engineers just as these older people created. Engineers are much more free than the filled Lovecraft monsters – it seems that humans are tall, pale, bald, and they are dead like us. While the elderly and their civilization are completely understanding, engineers are alluding to be very different from their offspring. They have tried forces that go beyond their ability to control and now want to purify the failed experience that is the Earth. What is more terrifying, an incomprehensible vacuum of madness or knowledge and to understand Humans for us have no more divine heritage than laboratory mice?

The big and clear difference is that “Prometheus” is in space. This means that there is a degree of removal of terror, while “in the mountains of madness” revolves around the terrible secrets buried in our world. When lovecraft wrote the story in the 1930s, Antarctica was still barely explored. Gou Tanabe also describes “AT The Mountains of Madness” Manga:

“Despite greater than Europe or Australia, the continent’s presence in Antarctica has unconfirmed until the nineteenth century (…) forbidden and worn, but the last continents are discovered hardly rolling over different decades, as it was evoked to the nineteenth century, as it was evoked on the coast, as it was evoked to the difference, as it was evoked on the coast.

Lovecraft was not the first or last narrator of stories depicting Antarctica as a frozen terror. Withdraw Edgar Alan Bou’s novel in 1838 “Arthur Gordon Bim narrated from Nantukte,” It is characterized by raising the horror of great terror in the Antarctic. In 1938, author John W. Campbell published a short story “Who goes there?” About the southern pole location that was attacked by a spasm monster. After decades, this story has become the source of the classic John Carptter movie “The Thing”.

Was it Del Toro to be the next master who left his mark on the horror of Antarctica? He is mostly a romantic director who loves his monsters, but when Del Toro wants to do it, he can make terrifying monsters: dental barrels in “Hellboy”, The Pale Man in “Pan’s Labyrinth”, “Red Ghosts in” Crimson Peak “, etc.A very good movie, Pararamor’s music video has inspired) “Nightmare Ally” is also very dark. It also seems that a young man appears to be Del Toro, I doubted that he was controlling Lovecraft’s depression in making “in the mountains of madness”.

After “Frankenstein,” Is “in the Mountains of Madness” the next Del Toro Passion project that rises from the dead? “Prometheus” is old news now, and Ridley Scott has no more “strange” films. If Del Toro is sharing test clips from him again in 2022, I do not doubt that his heart is still in it. It may only depend on whether Netflix is ​​more support than Warner Bros. And universal.

“Frankenstein” is scheduled to be released from Guilleermo Del Toro to be released on Netflix in November 2025.