It’s hard to imagine that people say no to a filmmaker like Guillermo del Toro, but before landing his Best Director Oscar for “The Shape of Water” there had been a handful of projects that slipped through his fingers. The most notable failed attempt was a live-action adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft‘s “At The Mountains of Madness.” Lovecraft’s tale mixes the science fiction and horror genres which would later have a direct influence on films like “Alien,” John Carpenter‘s “The Thing,” and more recently “Prometheus.”

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More than a decade later, del Toro shared a bit update with IndieWire about the lost project.

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