{"id":10483,"date":"2014-05-16T23:55:59","date_gmt":"2014-05-16T20:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=10483"},"modified":"2014-05-16T23:55:59","modified_gmt":"2014-05-16T20:55:59","slug":"at-the-mountains-of-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2014\/05\/16\/at-the-mountains-of-money\/","title":{"rendered":"At the Mountains of Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/business\/press-releases\/article\/H-P-Lovecraft-s-At-the-Mountains-of-Madness-to-5480414.php\">News<\/a> that Lux Digital Pictures has seed-funded a planned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/mountainsofmadnessmovie\">animated adaptation of <em>At the Mountains of Madness<\/em><\/a>.  On the back of this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telefilm.ca\/en\/?q=en\">Telefilm Canada<\/a> is &#8220;expected&#8221; to invest &#8220;approximately $2.5 million&#8221; Canadian dollars, along with fan-funding via a Kickstarter set to launch in June 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully the movie will be faithful and an authentic period piece.  Not distorted by the insertion of some tedious new &#8216;love interest&#8217;, or by setting it on another planet, or by adding a giant Cthulhu standing atop Kadath.  Although adding an additional subtle layer of valvepunk styling to the visual design and costuming might be nice.  Or even a 1931 vintage look for the illustration style, following the &#8216;filmed in Mythoscope&#8217; lead of the HPL Historical Society movies and the first 30 minutes of <em>Sky Captain<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The lead creative will be Stephen Sloan of Upon Animation Studios, and the film will be &#8220;produced entirely in Canada&#8221;, rather than being outsourced to the Far East.  Judging by the &#8216;Saturday morning cartoon&#8217; style that Upon Animation&#8217;s animation used for the animated inserts in <em>Films of Fury: The Kung Fu Movie Movie<\/em> (2011), the style may be stylised toony 2D rather than <em>Space Pirate Captain Harlock<\/em> rendered 3D.  The screenplay is by stage playwright Peter Colley.  Casting agent Deirdre Bowen is said to be set to start &#8220;casting by the beginning of July&#8221;, if the funds are raised.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/willjuniorconcept.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/willjuniorconcept.jpg\" alt=\"willjuniorconcept\" width=\"356\" height=\"496\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10484\" \/><\/a>A <em>Mountains<\/em> concept poster borrowed from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.behance.net\/gallery\/At-the-Mountains-of-Madness\/9725169\">Walter Junior<\/a>. Not the poster for the Upon Animation version.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News that Lux Digital Pictures has seed-funded a planned animated adaptation of At the Mountains of Madness. On the back &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2014\/05\/16\/at-the-mountains-of-money\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films-trailers","category-lovecraftian-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}