Guillermo del Toro Not Giving Up on At the Mountains of Madness

Just because Guillermo del Toro is busy with Pacific Rim and a number of other projects doesn't meant that he's given up hope on getting At the Mountains of Madness on the big screen. Universal canceled the project back in 2011, but del Toro mentioned during a recent interview that he's going to give it one more try.

Via The Playlist: "I'm going to try it one more time. Once more into the dark abyss... We're gonna do a big presentation of the project again at the start of the year and see if any [studio's] interested."

The plan was for Tom Cruise to star in the film and del Toro mentioned that he's still interested in the project: "Yeah, Tom is still attached. I think it would be so fantastic to make it with him. He's been such a great ally of the project."

With Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures happy with what they've seen of Pacific Rim, we wouldn't be surprised if they kept del Toro in-house and picked up his dream project. Aside from other projects keeping him busy, Guillermo del Toro previously mentioned that he was worried Prometheus would be too similar for At the Mountains of Madness to move forward with it. Obviously, that is no longer the case and here's what he had to say about any similarities:

"I saw it finally and.. yes, there are things in common, but, you know, screw it. Lovecraft was there first [laughs]"