Guillermo del Toro shared a CGI test clip of his abandoned adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s At The Mountains of Madness on his Instagram page on Wednesday. The film, which was originally set to star Tom Cruise, was passed on by Universal Studios in 2012.
Guillermo del Toro, the award-winning director of such films as Pan’s Labyrinth, Hellboy, Crimson Peak, and the upcoming Pinocchio, has posted a never-before-seen CG test clip from his abandoned adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s At The Mountains of Madness.
A long time admirer of Lovecraft’s writing, del Toro has tried to get an adaptation of the author’s iconic 1936 novella off the ground since as far back as 2006. The clip appears to date back to around 2012, when the film was conceived as a 3D computer-animated film à la 2007’s Beowulf, with Tom Cruise attached to star and James Cameron set to produce.
