Finally going to the Mountains of Madness?!

[TheAuldGrump]

Tekeli-li! Tekeli-li!

The Auld Grump, and all us other shuggoths, when the supper things is done, we sits around the kitchen fire, and has the mostest fun...

 

[Plane Sailing]

Dear God(s): I will run down and sacrifice a wild goat to you if you really, finally let this happen:

As if they care!

(exciting news all the same though!)

 

[Klaus]

Dear God(s): I will run down and sacrifice a wild goat to you if you really, finally let this happen: Guillermo Del Toro To Direct AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS In 3-D For Universal! James Cameron To Produce! -- Ain't It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news.

Does it have to be wild? In Brazil there are hundreds of places you can buy goats and chicken for African candomblé rituals.

And as I said on Circvs, the addition of 3D allows DelToro and Cameron to play with non-Euclidian angles! That's like adding all Caps to THE END OF THE STORY!!!!

 

[Joshua Randall]

But isn't James Cameron's "The Thing" pretty much a version of this story anyway?

Arctic expedition gone wrong. Everyone dies. The only part missing is the archaeology.

 

[jonesy]

But isn't James Cameron's "The Thing" pretty much a version of this story anyway?

Arctic expedition gone wrong. Everyone dies. The only part missing is the archaeology.

Not really. That was merely the beginning of Mountains. It got weird after that.

 

[TheAuldGrump]

But isn't James Cameron's "The Thing" pretty much a version of this story anyway?

Arctic expedition gone wrong. Everyone dies. The only part missing is the archaeology.

No, Cameron's *EDIT* Correction: Carpenter's *EDIT* The Thing is a fairly accurate version of John W, Campbell's Who Goes There. The setting and outcome are similar, 'most everything else is completely different. That said, it would fit well in Lovecraft's setting.

I liked both the story and the (second) movie for Who Goes There/The Thing and very much hope that I can say the same for The Mountains of Madness.

The Auld Grump

 

[JohnRTroy]

No, Cameron's The Thing is a fairly accurate version of John W, Campbell's Who Goes There.

I think you mean "John Carpenter". Cameron did Terminator 1-2, Aliens, The Abyss, Titanic and Avatar. Carpenter does stuff like that and Big Trouble in Little China, Halloween and Escape from New York, along with the Lovecraft Inspired In the Mouth of Madness.

 

[TheAuldGrump]

I think you mean "John Carpenter". Cameron did Terminator 1-2, Aliens, The Abyss, Titanic and Avatar. Carpenter does stuff like that and Big Trouble in Little China, Halloween and Escape from New York, along with the Lovecraft Inspired In the Mouth of Madness.

*EDIT* Check the post I quoted - my mistake was not correcting someone. *EDIT* Yeah, I need to correct that, when I went looking for the online version of Who Goes There (apparently now gone) my brain switched gears when I came back. Carpenter is in fact correct, and I have no idea how Cameron snuck into his place. (Though the idea of crossing the Abyss with Rlyeh sounds like fun....)

The Auld Grump

*EDIT* Never mind - it crept in because I quoted someone else's mistake. Grrrrr.