The film was meant to be played in theaters in 3-D, with Tom Cruise tentatively attached for some much-needed star power.
I'm completely fine with it not happening if Tom Cruise had a role. Also the script had very little time allocated for the exploration of the city.
I would love an adaptation with a better script and Del Toro's visual style.
3d, Tom Cruise Star Power, yeah I'm glad this got delayed. Hopefully they realize how shitty that would have been.
There's an Innaritu film being made that's a vehicle for his oscar bid, likely going to bomb with him in it because he is just insufferable on screen.
Why does this headline sounds like you've been waiting this whole time this project has been dead for years. It's not happening, and no one is trying to make it happen any more. Del Toro always has like 3-5 projects in various stages of pre-to production, most never making it to the end, as other progress...
I'm not sure this kind of stuff was ever meant to be filmed. And maybe it better isn't.
Of course not. It was written before "moving pictures" were a widespread thing.
And even more of course not, because Lovecraft usually writes in a way of: "if you see the thing, it's so incomprehensible that you go mad knowing the thing is an actual reality". There's never a way to make a Lovecraftian film without it being disappointing in a way. Especially if you show the thing.
Exactly. Take "The Colour of of Space" - it talks about "colours never before seen by man" (quote from memory, there are several variants of that in the text). Now f-ing film a colour never before seen by man ;-)
That translates into film as "a shimmery pink" apparently (if you've seen the film).
Which is not what Lovecraft wrote. There has been a B&W movie adaption of that book; at least they could imagine that the "colour" was "out of space".
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