For 20 years, no one has managed to adapt this masterpiece of science fiction, neither James Cameron nor Tom Cruise

In 2002, director Guillermo Del Toro first adapted Hallucinated mountainsScience Fiction News about the writer’s HP Lovecraft, published in 1936. Next to his script and his friend Matthew Robins, who was already his co-author of Mimic and has since been transformed into Crimson Peak and Pinocchio.

What are you talking about?

In Hallucinated mountainsA group of Arctic investigators in the impressive highlands discover the ruins of old civilization. However, they are rapidly frustrated when they understand that this place is also dangerous creatures called “ancestors” … The book is considered one of the classics of Lovecraft and SF literature.

If the project is written, Del Toro cannot take it, so he chooses to continue working in parallel. Thus, he is Helboo and between his luxury and between the two, the pan labyrinth.

In 2010, after two years of heavy scripture and copying, Del Toro left the hobby production after a very long time before the first hit of the cranes. Therefore, the Mexican filmmaker uses the opportunity to release his hallucinated mountains, remaining in the trays for eight years.

James Cameron and Tom Cruise participate

Universal opens his doors for this occasion, James Cameron is officially a producer, and Del Toro has great ambitions: the lead role is played by Tom Cruise, which closes the mission: impossible – ghost protocol. The studio prefers James McAvoy.

The project has lost time, but Cameron is enthusiastic in February 2011: “Tom wants to make a movie. I don’t think the agreement has already been reached, but we hope it will be resolved soon. Guillermo works crazy on the new version of the script. If everything goes well, we have to start shooting in June or July. ”

Finally, the universal towel in front of the film’s astronomical budget ($ 210 million tailored to inflation) and paused. Del Toro leaves Warner, who is ready to give it $ 243 million to make another scale film: the Pacific Ocean Ring.

For the next decade, Del Toro has signed a lot of projects: Crimson Peak, noted the form of water or nightmare alley in PT 2022, as if to try to convince him and also to deliver a little review to his fans, which shows 25 seconds of the test that Ilm Special Effspany – On its hallucinated mountain project and they are watering the mouth:

But after the revival of Del Toro, he wants to make a movie BeltThe project remained dead letter. Hallucinated mountains curse to the point that they never brought to the screen? We can still hope that the filmmaker comes to convince the financiers that his vision has the potential. Attracting the public to the horror cinema and the proof that the “R-rated” can still be interesting (as Deadpool 3 has proven) is in its favor.

At the same time, patience will be needed.

This year, the filmmaker publishes Netflix adaptation from another classical horror literature, Frankenstein, Oscar Isaac (Doctor Frankenstein) and Jacob Elord (Le Monster, replaced by Andrew Garfield), in Mia Goth, Ralfi. We could easily imagine that it was planned at the following festival, as the film is currently post -product and can be completed by May. Follow!