1) At The Mountains Of Madness
Any Guillermo del Toro fan will know that the director’s biggest aim is to translate H.P. Lovecraft’s At The Mountains of Madness to the big screen. The story is a horror classic, focusing on the discovery of an ancient, alien civilization in the Antarctic.
His passion for the project, when it was most active at the end of the 00s, inspired other big Hollywood names to get involved. James Cameron was set to produce, bringing his state-of-the-art CGI from Avatar with him. Plus, Tom Cruise was going to star.
Sadly, At The Mountains of Madness is probably impossible to make without compromise. Del Toro’s ideal version is an R-rated, unflinching movie that needs a huge budget to do the story justice. No studio is going to agree to that as the chances of such a strange film making a big impression at the box office is pretty slim. As such, the project is looking more and more like a pipe dream.
But then again, who knows? As del Toro’s weird and wonderful filmography proves, stranger things have happened.