Del Toro at the Mountains of Madness
Bits of News has up a nice article including a short explanation of H.P. Lovecraft as a man, some words from Guillermo Del Toro, a video of Neil Gaiman talking about HPL, and the trailer for the excellent HPLHS silent film “The Call of Cthulhu”.
“You need to create the character dynamics and the arc of the story, which is not in the book,” says del Toro. “Also, the horror in the book is only ambiguous and it’s kept open at the end. And you can still capture that atmosphere, but then you have to take it and go to a climax [in the movie]. Which in the book is really a climax by almost using negative space in the narrative; it’s what you don’t see that makes it. That essentially goes against the very essence of show business, because you don’t show anything. I think that what we’re doing is good and it’s as good as we can [do when] adapting Lovecraft. But it’s a project that’s been with us for several years now. It’s not an easy project to set up.”
So hoist up a Union Jack, and head on over to Bits of News!
Tags: Del Toro, HPLHS, Interview, Neil Gaiman, Video
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