Lovecraft fans, get ready jerk off[views:5270][posts:44]_______________________________________ [Jan 18,2008 1:54am - y_ddraig_goch ""] Guilermo Del Toro is making a movie adapted from the story at the mountains of madness....too bad it's not due out until 2010 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1118070/ |
| ________________________________________ [Jan 18,2008 9:25am - DestroyYouAlot ""] DAYYYUUMMMMMMMMMM. 2010? Good - hope they take their time with this shit. |
| __________________________________________ [Jan 18,2008 9:34am - DaveFromTheGrave ""] that story is one of my favorites. |
| __________________________________ [Jan 18,2008 9:52am - niflheim ""] Isn't this the guy that did "hellboy" and "pans labyrinthe"? I have absolutely no hope for this film. I can see this being another weak adaptation, in which to make H.P.L. turn over in his grave. Stuart Gordon is the only director to do some justice to Lovecraft's stories, and Carpenters In the Mouth of Madness was very Lovecraftian. |
| _________________________________________ [Jan 18,2008 10:23am - DestroyYouAlot ""] Huh - I thought well of those. HB was a pretty clear attempt to get some HPL feel in (the comics did a better jorb, granted, but when isn't that the case?), and Pan's Labyrinth impressed the hell out of me. I have high hopes (but I'll also be pretty damn critical if it doesn't measure up). |
| ________________________________________ [Jan 18,2008 10:24am - punk potenza ""] Love craft cant turn over in his grave it got robbed to many times hah. i dont have any high expecations for any love craft movie. i saw the tralier for cthulhu and tori spelling is in it. i dont even know if that movie is comming out. |
| ___________________________________ [Jan 18,2008 10:28am - faggums ""] Those crazy shape-shifting amorphous monsters from this story should look pretty amazing with some CGI |
| _________________________________________ [Jan 18,2008 10:29am - DestroyYouAlot ""] See bad HPL movie, roll for SAN loss. |
| _______________________________ [Jan 18,2008 10:31am - Yeti ""] Pan's Labyrinth rules, and so does Hellboy. i hope he does a good job with this too. |
| _______________________________________ [Jan 18,2008 10:41am - GoatCatalyst ""] i thought this thread was about a hovercraft. dicks. |
| ___________________________________ [Jan 18,2008 10:44am - niflheim ""] I didn't see the hype behind Pans Labyrinth, I thought the story was bland. Jan Svankmajer's Alice did a better job at capturing the dark undertones of a childs escapist fantasies from a painful or dull existence. |
| _________________________________________ [Jan 18,2008 10:50am - DestroyYouAlot ""] GoatCatalyst said:i thought this thread was about a hovercraft. dicks. The Hewlett Packard Hovercraft, yes. Clearly; I thought this was obvious? |
| _____________________________________ [Jan 18,2008 12:18pm - Kinslayer ""] I've ALWAYS said that At The Mountains of Madness was one of the ONLY Lovecraft stories (books) that could be made into a great movie. It's got such a concise, reasonably straight-forward scene for scene story... If done right, this could RULE! |
| _____________________________________ [Jan 18,2008 12:19pm - Kinslayer ""] Ron Perlman? |
| __________________________________________ [Jan 18,2008 12:27pm - SacreligionNLI ""] niflheim said:I didn't see the hype behind Pans Labyrinth, I thought the story was bland. Jan Svankmajer's Alice did a better job at capturing the dark undertones of a childs escapist fantasies from a painful or dull existence. i was under the assumption that in the case of pan's labyrinth it was all meant to be true, only that the adults couldn't see what ofelia saw due to their lives being deeply rooted in the world that they "knew" either way...if you go into a movie expecting some life-changing event you're a fool. just enjoy the movie for its story and cinematography |
| _________________________________ [Jan 18,2008 12:43pm - xmikex ""] del Toro rules. I never saw Hellboy though. |
| _______________________________________ [Jan 18,2008 1:31pm - Y_Ddraig_Goch ""] Kinslayer said:I've ALWAYS said that At The Mountains of Madness was one of the ONLY Lovecraft stories (books) that could be made into a great movie. It's got such a concise, reasonably straight-forward scene for scene story... If done right, this could RULE! Yeah everything else, although awesome, is just some guy retelling events up until the last page where he keeps writing stuff like...they are coming now, I can hear it at the door! I've read pretty much every short story of his, I would say that all of the lesser known ones, even to horror fiction fans, would make better stories than his well known ones...stuff like whisperer in the dark, the horror at red hook |
| ____________________________________ [Jan 18,2008 1:55pm - Kinslayer ""] I have an entire screenplay/script written for a film adaptation of The Hound. I played off of it a bit so as to make it 'work' as a film but it's the same story for the most part. I want to film it entirely in Providence with the grave robbing scenes filmed at Swan Point Cemetery (for obvious reasons)... Someday I'll get the crew and have the time/$$ to do it... |
| _______________________________________ [Jan 18,2008 2:01pm - Y_Ddraig_Goch ""] Kinslayer said:I have an entire screenplay/script written for a film adaptation of The Hound. I played off of it a bit so as to make it 'work' as a film but it's the same story for the most part. I want to film it entirely in Providence with the grave robbing scenes filmed at Swan Point Cemetery (for obvious reasons)... Someday I'll get the crew and have the time/$$ to do it... even with my limited film experience I would help in anyway to make that....though I think if you wanted to add to the lovecraft feel you would have to use the Charter St cemetery in Salem, it's the place he set most of his cemetery scenes in. |
| __________________________________ [Jan 18,2008 2:05pm - niflheim ""] I think I said I didn't enjoy the story, not that I was looking for a life altering experience from viewing Pan's Labyrinth. I just wish I could have gotten those 2 lost hours of my life back, or whatever the duration of the film was. |
| ________________________________________ [Jan 18,2008 2:12pm - DestroyYouAlot ""] I think most of his stuff would rely on having narration throughout - not a very popular technique, nowadays. |
| _______________________________________ [Jan 18,2008 2:17pm - Y_Ddraig_Goch ""] DestroyYouAlot said:I think most of his stuff would rely on having narration throughout - not a very popular technique, nowadays. people should just shoot themselves if they complain about having to read subtitles, they obviously can't read well and get frustrated that they can't finish reading the sentences before the scene changes. |
| __________________________________ [Jan 18,2008 2:17pm - niflheim ""] Steady narration worked well for Fight Club, which the studio was originally against. |
| _______________________________________ [Jan 18,2008 2:22pm - Y_Ddraig_Goch ""] niflheim said:Steady narration worked well for Fight Club, which the studio was originally against. and american histor x....didn'y do so well for the Alexander movie with colin farell...although I liked that movie sans the gay sex... |
| ____________________________________ [Jan 18,2008 2:57pm - Kinslayer ""] Email me @ kinslayer_war@yahoo.com --> when I get home I'll forward you the script/screenplay. I have 2 cameras (HI-8 so they'll be nice and grainy) tripods, mics etc... |
| ____________________________________ [Jan 18,2008 2:58pm - Kinslayer ""] I have editing skills as well; I majored/minored in Multimedia/Graphic Design... Only Final Cut Pro is real. |
| ________________________________________ [Jan 18,2008 2:59pm - DestroyYouAlot ""] Somebody was doing a bunch of low-budget (total fans-for-fans) HPL films a while back... Yog-Sothoth.com might have some info. |
| _________________________________________ [Jan 18,2008 2:59pm - SacreligionNLI ""] Y_Ddraig_Goch said:didn'y do so well for the Alexander movie with colin farell...although I liked that movie sans the gay sex... the only thing good about that movie was rosario dawson's floppy pillows of awesome |
| ________________________________________ [Jan 18,2008 2:59pm - DestroyYouAlot ""] LOL @ "floppy pillows of awesome." |
| _________________________________________ [Jan 18,2008 3:01pm - SacreligionNLI ""] *thank you, thank you* |
| _______________________________________ [Jan 18,2008 3:03pm - Y_Ddraig_Goch ""] SacreligionNLI said:Y_Ddraig_Goch said:didn'y do so well for the Alexander movie with colin farell...although I liked that movie sans the gay sex... the only thing good about that movie was rosario dawson's floppy pillows of awesome was that the chick he was raping? she was pretty hot, I think they called her Roxshana or something. I saw the directors cut...I really hope the theatrical released ended with him dying in India, in the version I watched...after 2 hours and him dying in India..."unlike the legend, he lived on..." then ensued about 40 more minutes of the journey back home, complete boringness. |
| ____________________________________ [Jan 18,2008 3:05pm - Kinslayer ""] I have a bunch of VHS tape collection of DIY Lovecraft film adaptations that were compilation collections from the Lovecraft Film Fest in Portland Oregon every year |
| _______________________________________ [Jan 18,2008 3:08pm - Y_Ddraig_Goch ""] Kinslayer said:Email me @ kinslayer_war@yahoo.com --> when I get home I'll forward you the script/screenplay. I have 2 cameras (HI-8 so they'll be nice and grainy) tripods, mics etc... I'm probably too unprofessional to help with anything major, I am majoring in creative writing right now, so what I do with my film "company" is mostly script and plot. But you already have the script so the most I could do is read it and as a fellow lovecraft fan and script writer tell you what I think. the movies we make right now are only youtube worthy, besides our Alf horror comedy that will someday finally make it to dvd under our production (we're saving up for a more expensive camera, the one we have now is 500 dollars, we want to upgrade to something in the 2000 dollar range, we don't even have lighting or sound equipment yet hahah) , although we are embarking on our first serious short film to be entered into a movie contest, the prize is having ramero watch it and put it on the dvd release of his newest movie as an extra. either way I would like to check out the script email me at Devaneykyle@hotmail.com |
| ________________________________ [Jan 18,2008 3:14pm - xmikex ""] Kinslayer said:I have an entire screenplay/script written for a film adaptation of The Hound. I played off of it a bit so as to make it 'work' as a film but it's the same story for the most part. I want to film it entirely in Providence with the grave robbing scenes filmed at Swan Point Cemetery (for obvious reasons)... Someday I'll get the crew and have the time/$$ to do it... I'm doing my masters in TV production. Keep me in mind if you need any crew. |
| ___________________________________ [Jan 18,2008 5:24pm - dreadkill ""] DestroyYouAlot said:LOL @ "floppy pillows of awesome." double lulz |
| ________________________________________ [Jan 18,2008 7:40pm - voidexpression ""] Del Toro will make this work. His only mis-step was Mimic, and he had no control over that one so he essentially been flawless in his film-making and there is no reason for that to change anytime soon. Svankmajer is a genius and Alice is of course a better film than Pan's Labyrinth, but to compare the two is fair to neither. Same basic theme, extremely different purpose and execution. |
| __________________________________________ [Jan 18,2008 7:46pm - Headbanging Man ""] I'd really like to make "Imprisoned With The Pharaohs" one day myself. I think Del Toro will respect the work and bring ATMOM to life well; I haven't seen much of his shit, but it seems like he's very adaptable and has a deep appreciation for Horror of all kinds, so he should be able to make it work. Hopefully it will be in English... Looks like it's an American production, so I think it will be. |
| ___________________________________ [Jan 18,2008 8:25pm - narkybark ""] Del Toro is also pushing to direct the last Potter film. |
| ________________________________________ [Jan 18,2008 8:35pm - voidexpression ""] narkybark said:Del Toro is also pushing to direct the last Potter film. If Cuaron can do one, why not! Though he would be better suited for the sixth movie. Should be fun either way and it would be cool to see it work out |
| _________________________________________ [Jan 18,2008 10:35pm - DomesticTerror ""] i can see it now... "said the Elder Thing." |
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