Comments on: Guillermo Del Toro To Direct ‘Pacific Rim’ Instead Of ‘At The Mountains Of Madness’? https://staging2.theplaylist.net/guillermo-del-toro-to-direct-pacific-rim-instead-of-at-the-mountains-of-madness-20110307/ Tue, 17 Nov 2020 04:00:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: BuntyHoven https://staging2.theplaylist.net/guillermo-del-toro-to-direct-pacific-rim-instead-of-at-the-mountains-of-madness-20110307/#comment-102783 Fri, 13 May 2016 14:58:58 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2011/more/uncategorized/guillermo-del-toro-to-direct-pacific-rim-instead-of-at-the-mountains-of-madness-119922/#comment-102783 Shoulda gone with some sort of \”Guillermo lines up \’Rim\’ Job\” headline for us immature types.

]]> By: hotpot https://staging2.theplaylist.net/guillermo-del-toro-to-direct-pacific-rim-instead-of-at-the-mountains-of-madness-20110307/#comment-102784 Fri, 13 May 2016 14:58:58 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2011/more/uncategorized/guillermo-del-toro-to-direct-pacific-rim-instead-of-at-the-mountains-of-madness-119922/#comment-102784 I will not see a Tom Cruise unless it is really good. So this movie needs to be great.

]]> By: alan https://staging2.theplaylist.net/guillermo-del-toro-to-direct-pacific-rim-instead-of-at-the-mountains-of-madness-20110307/#comment-102785 Fri, 13 May 2016 14:58:58 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2011/more/uncategorized/guillermo-del-toro-to-direct-pacific-rim-instead-of-at-the-mountains-of-madness-119922/#comment-102785 paul,

guillermo is saying something very close to his heart with this film; exploring questions and fiddling with his own answers he\’s contained since he was a kid. the novel is violent and honest, something very hard to pull off with a grain of fantasy. to dumb it down to a PG-13 with no cursing ( practically, you\’d curse if you\’d see these creatures coming at you ), numb violence, and heavy-handed ignorance guiding the production is incompatible with the story and guillermo\’s film.

but jim cameron is a magician, and is already swooping down from the sky to help… 🙂

]]> By: Visionaries rule! https://staging2.theplaylist.net/guillermo-del-toro-to-direct-pacific-rim-instead-of-at-the-mountains-of-madness-20110307/#comment-102786 Fri, 13 May 2016 14:58:58 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2011/more/uncategorized/guillermo-del-toro-to-direct-pacific-rim-instead-of-at-the-mountains-of-madness-119922/#comment-102786 This just pisses me off! Universal is willing to spend 200 million on a Battleship movie starring Rihanna and a Ouija movie from the writers of Tron Legacy, the producers of the Friday the 13th and Nightmare on Elm Street remakes, and the director of Terminator Salvation but they won’t let two visionary directors, Guillermo del Toro and Gore Verbinski, make R-rated films (At The Mountains of Madness and Bioshock) that will be unlike anything audiences see. The reason Universal is having so many flops is that they are putting out films people are tired of seeing (The Dilemma, The Wolfman, Leap Year, Get Him to the Greek, Land of the Lost, Cirque du Freak, and Charlie St. Cloud). If they really want to turn things around go big or home and let directors make films that are going to surprise and captivate audiences by showing them something they do not see from studios.

]]> By: Paul https://staging2.theplaylist.net/guillermo-del-toro-to-direct-pacific-rim-instead-of-at-the-mountains-of-madness-20110307/#comment-102787 Fri, 13 May 2016 14:58:58 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2011/more/uncategorized/guillermo-del-toro-to-direct-pacific-rim-instead-of-at-the-mountains-of-madness-119922/#comment-102787 Truthfully, both sides should work on a compromise. If Del Toro wanted to, he could shoot an R rated film with the forewarned knowledge of a theatrical PG-13 & all the departments could organize the production in such a way that it could effectively be edited for both a PG-13 cut & R rated cut to exist. With the right planning in pre-production I feel it could be done in such a way that they could make two great versions of the same film without upsetting anyone. Sure, you might lose the vulgarity- Fuck, shit, etc. But with the right cutting & little additional scenes here & there (to fill in information gaps left by the removal of heavy gore moments) a great PG-13 cut could be made for the theatrical venue. THEN several months down the line you release an R rated cut on BluRay & give fans an option. I think with the proper planning most of these rating issues could be overcome.

OR he could shrink the film to about $70-90 million and instead of making the R-rated AVATAR he\’d still get to make a large scale R rated action-horror flick.

]]> By: Mark https://staging2.theplaylist.net/guillermo-del-toro-to-direct-pacific-rim-instead-of-at-the-mountains-of-madness-20110307/#comment-102788 Fri, 13 May 2016 14:58:58 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2011/more/uncategorized/guillermo-del-toro-to-direct-pacific-rim-instead-of-at-the-mountains-of-madness-119922/#comment-102788 Universal spends hundreds of millions of dollars each year on shit, yet they can\’t pony up $150 million for James Cameron, Tom Cruise and Guillermo Del Toro? Del Toro wants to make a visionary horror epic in the vein of Alien and The Shining, too bad there are no visionary studio heads left to greenlight GREAT MOVIES anymore.

]]> By: Smash Tit-house https://staging2.theplaylist.net/guillermo-del-toro-to-direct-pacific-rim-instead-of-at-the-mountains-of-madness-20110307/#comment-102789 Fri, 13 May 2016 14:58:58 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2011/more/uncategorized/guillermo-del-toro-to-direct-pacific-rim-instead-of-at-the-mountains-of-madness-119922/#comment-102789 aw shit. this is terrible news. i hope it turns out to be false. we need more lovecraft on screen before we need wanna-be Godzillas from the clown behind the abysmal Clash of the Titans.

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