News just in. James Cameron has reportedly stepped into the uncertainly over Guillermo del Toro’s big-budget film adaptation of At the Mountains of Madness. Presumably carrying a sack-load of profits from Avatar. At the Mountains of Madness is now apparently set to be a full-blown stereo-3D adaptation, directed by del Toro and produced by Cameron. Let’s hope Cameron doesn’t request that the story be updated to the modern day, so they can tediously wheel in teen-friendly things like helicopters firing missiles, as we saw in the mess that was Avatar. I want a beautifully restrained 1930s valve-punk adaptation, full of incredible Sky Captain-like machines.
The full exclusive story has just been broken by Deadline.
I was thinking more about having the big machines at the start. Beef up the expedition, “awesome mechanised humanity” shots etc to settle down the teens in the audience — only then for humanity’s hubris to be humbled and dwarfed in the darker second half, against the backdrop of the intellect and technologies of creatures that have lived for aeons of time.
I guess Cameron will want modern-day political correctness to get a ticket to Antarctica. I guess we have to expect a tedious luuurv interest subplot with a bright young female scientist. Hey, but it might be interesting if it was a gay luv interest! 🙂 And let’s just hope Cameron doesn’t use the film as a vehicle to tediously play out his boring Vietnam complex again, as he did with Avatar.