Guillermo del Toro refuses to give up on ‘At the Mountains of Madness’

On paper, a blockbuster fantasy epic written and directed by two-time Academy Award winner Guillermo del Toro, with three-time Oscar winner James Cameron producing and world’s biggest movie star Tom Cruise in the lead role, sounds like a recipe for box office success.

However, despite boasting a trio of top talents, del Toro’s long-gestating At the Mountains of Madness just couldn’t come together for a myriad of reasons. For one, the filmmaker refused to budge from an R-rating, while Universal felt the screenplay bore too many similarities to Ridley Scott’s Prometheus, even though the source material was published in 1936.

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