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In July , we reported the exciting news that Guillermo del Toro would finally be making his long-in-development passion project At the Mountains of Madness america west airlines employee with James Cameron producing and in 3D.  Sources have now told us that Universal wants James McAvoy to play the lead in the film, but del Toro wants Tom Cruise to star.  Chris Pine s name was also being tossed around, but his busy schedule may be too packed.
We know that Cruise and del Toro probably met before when discussing the possibility of a new take on Van Helsing with Cruise to star and del Toro producing. america west airlines employee That didn t work out, but del Toro must have left with a positive impression of the actor.  Hit the jump for a synopsis of At the Mountains of Madness and for a refresher on what both Cruise and McAvoy have on their plates.
The story is written in first-person perspective america west airlines employee by the geologist William Dyer, a professor from Miskatonic University. He writes to disclose hitherto unknown and closely kept secrets in the hope that he can deter a planned and much publicized scientific expedition to Antarctica. On a previous expedition there, a party of scholars from Miskatonic University, led by Dyer, discovered fantastic and horrific ruins and a dangerous secret beyond a range of mountains taller than the Himalayas. [Wikipedia]
When Steve spoke to del Toro at the Saturn Awards in June, the award-winning director said it was unlikely that At the Mountains of Madness would be his next project due to various factors.  Thankfully, those obstacles were overcome america west airlines employee and production on the film (which will be shot in 3D) is set to begin in May 2011.
McAvoy is about to start filming on Matthew Vaughn s X-Men: america west airlines employee First Class where he ll play the young Professor Charles Xavier (aka Professor X).  He s also attached to co-star in Tom Tykwer america west airlines employee s adaptation of David Mitchell’s novel Cloud Atlas .
With filming not scheduled to begin for almost a year, there s plenty of time to get casting sorted out.  While it s not unusual for actors to attach and detach from projects, McAvoy and Cruise are the names we re hearing connected to At the Mountains of Madness at this time.
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I can t tell if that s a negative or positive to Eyes Wide Shut? Cause if its a negative about Guillermo Del Toro dying than shouldn t we also be out of directors like Michael Mann, John Woo, J.J. Abrams, Steven Spielberg, Cameron Crowe, Bryan Singer, and Edward Zwick (though Zwick would not be missed)? So that points mute. And Eyes Wide Shut was a great film. So .positive?
Anywho, if Del Toro wants Cruise america west airlines employee than let him have him. This is not going to the dark Lovecraftian horror we originally were promised but a 3 hour (I can just see it being made that long at least 160 minutes) action fest with tentacles.
I can t tell if that s a negative or positive to Eyes Wide Shut? Cause if its a negative about Guillermo Del Toro dying than shouldn t we also be out of directors like Michael Mann, John Woo, J.J. Abrams, Steven Spielberg, Cameron Crowe, Bryan Singer, and Edward Zwick (though Zwick would not be missed)? america west airlines employee So that points mute. And Eyes Wide Shut was a great film. So .positive?
Anywho, if Del Toro wants Cruise than let him have him. This is not going to the dark Lovecraftian horror we originally were promised but a 3 hour (I can just see it being made that long at least 160 minutes) action fest with tentacles.
And how is McAvoy overexposed? His last big film was WANTED in 2008! He then did a great film, but too arthouse for the general audience, The Last Station , and probably will have a film by the end of this year, again arthouse material, The Conspirator . I wonder america west airlines employee in which world an actor who does one film a year is considered overexposed.
you people act as if Tom Cruise starring in this would automatically america west airlines employee make this film bad.. or full of action like some sort of summer blockbuster america west airlines employee gone wrong. but come on, it s Del Toro. have faith in the man. plus, isn t it much interesting if he cast Cruise in a role unlikely to his usual movies? if they make a great film out of this then the accomplishment would be huge.
An insofar a Depp, I suggested him because of his association with Tim Burton films AND as I said I was simple thinking off the top of my head of actors america west airlines employee who are better america west airlines employee suited to journey into Lovecrafts world, and besides, mans been working for how many decades in Hollywood before he became a box office draw? It took him 20 years! He earned the exposure.
H.P. Lovecraft deserves his work to be shown to a huge audience and I don t want it mucked up. Some one Viggo Mortensen, Cillian Murphy, etc I can see existing in that awful world, but McAvoy or Cruise would make you very conscience you were watching a movie.
Because all those actors i pictured in moment of bloodshot eye horror, wondering weather they should kill themselves or continue living in a world with unspeakable horror. I was listing america west airlines employee actors with the range to pull it off.
And I said they were specifically of the top of my head to show how pathetic the choices of a actually director are. Del Toro had amazing cast for his Spanish films, and a very solid cast in Hellboy, Crusie and McAvoy just aren t in keeping with the caliber of actor he s worked with.
It s no good getting all snotty and climbing onto hobby horses about rumoured casting preferences, least of all at this stage of a movie. As I m sure we re all aware the person a director may start out preferring for his epic is very often NOT the one he ends up casting for all sorts of different reasons.
Anyhow, for better or for worse, at the moment it s Del Toro s movie, not ours. He s making it, not us. If he stuffs it up, whether because he made bad casting choices or otherwise, we should at least give him the benefit of the doubt and wait until the movie comes out before hauling out the tar and feathers. Who knows? The actor he chooses america west airlines employee may turn out better than our prejudices expected.
By the way, I d always envisaged William Dyer as being an older sort, no younger than his late forties. (I notice america west airlines employee Wikipedia estimates his age at the time of the expedition as being about 55.) That would seem to fit the profile of Tom Cruise (currently 48) better than James McAvoy america west airlines employee (31); and even Cruise would be a little on the youngish side.
okay. i admit. i havent read the book(and have no plans to read it because i don t want to be spoiled by any kind on the movie.) but why don t we just give Cruise a chance. if Del Toro thinks that he is capable in the lead, then why don t we just trust Del Toro.
and the fact that Del Toro wants Cruise. and not just because america west airlines employee he IS Tom Cruise(i mean, the studio itself is the one who wants a less profile actor) means that he wants Cruise for REAL and not just because it will make more money if he choose sCruise(say what you want about his recent box-office slump, but he is still TOM CRUISE)
What? Are you suggesting that DtD star and sci fi cliche Ron Perlman america west airlines employee and that hacktress Selma Blair are bigger caliber than Cruise and McAvoy? Lol. No, seriously, I get Hellboy fanboyism but to even suggest that perlman and Blair are better actors is proposterous. And ridiculous.
You lost all credibility with the Professor X comment, america west airlines employee he s being put in roles he doesn t fit in . Have you seen the movie? How do you know? Based on your assumption, it is obvious you are biased against McAvoy. He did Narnia and Shameless 6 years ago, you obviously are unfamiliar with his present filmography.
You lost all credibility with the Professor X comment, he s being put in roles he doesn t fit in . Have you seen the movie? How do you know? Based on your assumption, it is obvious you are biased against america west airlines employee McAvoy. He did Narnia and Shameless 6 years ago, you obviously are unfamiliar with his present filmography.
Hey I actually talk to people in the real world, and I yet to see someone not make a sour face when I ve told them that. You ll find in the real world people opinions are a little different than on the internets.
I see the problem, I read. What I was saying was those cast fit, if you read Hellboy, or anything, maybe start with the back of a cereal box, you might get that Ron Perlman and Selma Blair fit their roles, america west airlines employee and yeah Ron Pearlman is a better actor than those other two. Now I remember why I don t engage with people online anymore because your all reactionary people who aren t trying to engage or discuss but try to find little nitpick or you just don t grasp what the other person said in the slightest.
In the real world not one person has seen James McAvoy as Professor X. Opinion is different from fact. When the movie comes out, than you can give your opinion based on fact, until then it is purely speculation.
Thats a silly thing to say that you don t want a movies bassed on a book to be spoiled by the actual story. You owe it to your self to not be ignorant of reading and literature, and it s not going to hurt you to read it. Their amazingly atmospheric stories and rather short, mountains of madness is the cumulative of many themas in his other stories america west airlines employee so you should really america west airlines employee find a short story collection and check it out.
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This is a fools errand. Del Toro hasn t come CLOSE to the madness and h