For close to twenty years, Guillermo del Toro has been attempting to get a cinematic adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's "At the Mountains of Madness" off the ground. Multiple studios have gotten entangled, Tom Cruise was once attached to star and James Cameron even became involved as a producer. Unknowable evils, cities of unnatural dread, and creatures so nasty they drive you insane, "A the Mountains of Madness" is a tale of isolated, snowy monstrousness. Find out if del Toro stands a shot at getting the greenlight.

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