Guillermo del Toro Still Very Much Planning On Bringing H.P. Lovecraft's 'AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS' To Life For Netflix!

Oscar winning director, Guillermo del Toro, has tried a few times to make a live action adaptation of the H.P. Lovecraft story, ‘At The Mountains Of Madness’ to life. This time though, he went to Netflix and wants an even weirder more out there story than before, we dig it!

Speaking on Fangoria’s Stephen King podcast the Kingcast, del Toro was asked whether his new partnership with Netflix could open the door for another try.

“Take a wild guess which were the first projects I presented [to Netflix], you know? I went through the cupboards and found [The Count of] Monte Cristo, [At the] Mountains of Madness. Those were a couple of the ones I presented first,” del Toro says.

Del Toro reveals that he pulled out the script he wrote 15yrs ago for the project and well he states its “is not the screenplay I would do now, so I need to do a rewrite.”

“Not only to scale it down somehow but back then I was trying to bridge the scale of it with elements that made it somewhat be able to go through the studio machinery. You know?” del Toro explained.

The director says without the need to go more “blockbuster-y” he is free to make “a far more esoteric, weirder, smaller version of it.” del Toro adds that he can restore scenes that were left out and do away with big set pieces he has “no appetite for.”

“Like, I’ve already done this or that giant set piece. I feel like going into a weirder direction… I know the ending we have is one of the most intriguing weird, unsettling endings, for me.”

Now the ball is in Netflix’s corner. Here’s hoping things move forward and we can finally see del Toro rip into some H.P. Lovecraft weirdness!