At the Mountains of Madness is the movie Guillermo del Toro was born to direct, and now it looks like it should start filming in June. The truly sanity-blasting element of it is that Tom Cruise is set to star:
Ron Perlman told us that he’s in the movie, playing a newly invented character, a “dog-sled guy” who’s more no-nonsense than the academics and intellectuals on the mission.
Cameron raised our hopes a while back, when he called Mountains of Madness an “epically scaled horror film” and added that “we haven’t seen anything like this… since Aliens.” He added in a separate interview, “The design work is phenomenal, both the three-dimensional and two-dimensional design work, the physical maquettes, the CG test scenes; the artwork is phenomenal. The fans certainly won’t want for a visual feast with this film.”