Guillermo del Toro has pitched a smaller-scale rewrite of his movie adaptation of Lovecraft’s At The Mountains of Madness. If picked up it could be made by Netflix with an “unknown cast”, and he told a recent podcast…
I can go to a far more esoteric, weirder, smaller version of it where I can go back to some of the scenes that were left out. Some of the big set pieces I designed, for example, I have no appetite for. I’ve already done this or that giant set piece. I feel like going into a weirder direction. I know a few things will stay, I know the ending we have is one of the most intriguing, weird, unsettling endings for me. So there’s about four horror set-pieces that I [still] love in the original script.