Del Toro Talks At the Mountains of Madness

Guillermo del Toro has just recently confirmed that he will be directing The Hobbit. But if you know anything about del Toro then you would know that he always has five or six things on the back burner. His recent pet project is the H.P. Lovecraft tale "At the Mountains of Madness".

In the story a group of explorers is traveling through Antartica when they stumble onto an ancient city. Unfortuanately for them they stumble upon some wicked tentacled creatures called "Elder Things" that are living embodiments of fear and madness. Yea, if you have never read anything by H.P. Lovecraft.. its time to learn yourself.

The MTV Movies Blog caught up with del Toro and managed to get a couple words from him about the project. “I remember when I was a kid out of the studios came the big event horror movies, ‘The Exorcist,’ ‘Alien,’ ‘Jaws,’ ‘The Shining,’” del Toro recalled. “It is my hope that this movie will be a tentpole movie [of that sort]. It has the scope of a Shackleton epic exploration movie but it’s full of tentacled things.”

Of course we all know that del Toro isn't going to make a puny Hollywood friendly movie. So he added, “I know some people would like a happier ending but I’m happy with the ending there is.” Sounds like another punch in the gut ending like with The Mist. Color me excited.