There is no film for which I am more excited in 2025 than Guillermo del Toro's "Frankenstein". The The trailer with a lavish look suggests that Del Toro's "Frankenstein" can be the real adaptation, however of Mary Shelley's "contemporary Prometheus". But it is also unmistakably his film; He thinks this is Part of a thematic trilogy with "Nightmare Street" and "Pinocchio".

Del Toro is one of the most prominent fantasy and horror directors we are working today. Frankenstein will return it to fully sci-fiction for the first time from the "Pacific Rim" in 2013. ("The Shape of Water" can have a fisher as a leading character, but it's definitely more than a fairy tale than science.)

In addition to "Frankenstein", there is another classic scientific story that Del Toro has long wanted to adjust: "On the Mountains of HP". Posted in 1936 (shortly before Lovecraft's death), the story follows Antarctic university research team. When some researchers were found brutally killed, geologist William Dyer and his student Danfort examine and encounter a prehistoric city, home to many old -known works (also known as older) that went to Earth for about a billion years before human civilization sprouted. The civilization of old things was destroyed by Shoggoths, a fever race race that created them that raised against them. Dyer and Danford survive (the events of the novel are told in the first person from Dyer), but Danfort is driven irreversibly.

Guillermo del Toro has been trying to make "the mountains of madness" since the early 2000s, but he did not find a home for it in Brosner of Warner in 2010, he managed to advance to universal; Ams Cameron (who first read "Alita" thanks to his friendship with Del Toro) I would produce and Tom Cruise was the top choice for a Starwar. Then, the film again disintegrated because of budget concerns and Del Toro refused to deal with the rating of the Republic of Macedonia.

Del Toro has a ton of unrealized projects, from a Live Adaptation of Acting Naoki's Manga Urasawa "Monster", to the third movie "Helboy". For some time, his "Frankenstein" has fallen into the development of hell. "On the Mountains of Madness" remains something that Del Toro fans want to see, especially after Del Toro shared several CGI test shots from the project in 2022.

But there is another reason why the director stopped trying to make "the mountains of madness" after the 2011 cancellation. The following year, another film about science fiction came out with a similar premise: "Perchel" by Ridley Scott "Alien", Prometheus.

On April 30, 2012, shortly before the announcement of "Prometheus" he, June, the bull posted on the Bull Movies Forum That the movie "will probably mark a long break - if not the demolition - on (" on the mountains of madness ")".

"" Prometheus started filming some time ago-at the moment we were in pre-production of the "Pacific edge". The title itself gave me a break knowing that "alien" was greatly influenced by Lovecraft and his novel this time, decades later with the budget and the place that Ridley Scott occupied, I assumed that the Greek metaphor alluded to the aspects of creating HPL's book. "

Now that Prometheus has been long announced, it is clear that Del Toro was right for the money. Scott's film is set in the early 22th century and follows astronauts following the archaeological indications of ancient civilization of the country. They arrive on the planet LV-223, which has an ancient structure built by foreign engineers, the creators of the human race. But engineers' intentions towards their children are not so well -intentioned, and the secrets in their temple were better trapped. As the Prometheus mark states: "The search for our beginning can lead to an end."

Scott's writer and "Prometheus", Damon Lindeloff, withdrew from the book "Kochi of the Gods of 1968?" From Erich von Daniken, the root of the theory of "Ancient Astronauts" that people were exalted by foreign visitors to prehistory. But there is a lot of Lovecraft in Prometheus, too. The whole premise of researchers exploring an ancient foreign city is right from the "Mountains of Madness".

Life creation is also a key topic in both stories; The engineers created us just as the older ones were created by Shoggoths. Engineers are much more understandable than Lovecraft's miraculous monsters - they look like tall, pale, bald people and are as mortal as we are. While the older and their civilization are completely defying their understanding, the engineers are insinuated not to be too different from their offspring. They experimented with forces over their ability to dominate and now want to clear the failed experiment that is a country. That is worse, incomprehensible gap of madness or Knowing And Understanding That we humans have no more divine heritage than laboratory rats?

The great and obvious difference is that Prometheus is set in space. That means there is some degree of horror removal, while "on the mountains of madness" is everything for the terrible secret buried in Our world. When Lovecraft wrote the story in the 1930s, Antarctica was still barely explored. As the Adaptation of Manga "On the Mountains of Madness" of Gu Tanabe: Adaptation for manga:

"Although larger than Europe or Australia, the very existence of the Antarctic continent remained unconfirmed until the 19th century (...) forbidden and remotely, the last of the continents to be discovered, has barely entered for decades. And the interior of Antarctica."

Lovecraft was not the first or last storyteller to show Antarctica as a land of frozen horror. Pulled out of Edgar Allan's novel after 1838 "Arthur Gordon Pim of Nantuquet" narrative ", in which there are leading leading, finding a great horror in the South Pole. In 1938, author Johnon W. Campbell published a story "Who Go there?" About an Antarctic outpatient attacked by a monster in the form of a monster. Decades later, that story became a original material for Johnon Carpenter's classic film "The Thing".

Can Del Toro be the next master to leave his mark on Antarctica's horror? He is a predominantly romantic director who loves his monsters, but when he wants Del Toro, he can make Asts' frightening: teeth fairies in "Helboy", "Paley man in" Pan Labyrin "," red spirits in "Crimson Pick", etc.movie so good, inspired music video in Paramor) and "Alej Nightmare" are also pretty dark. Like a boy like Del Toro, I suspect that he would lead Lovecraft's darkness in the "Mountains of Madness".

After "Frankenstein", Will "on the Mountains of Madness" will be the next project for Del Toro's passion that will rise from the dead? Prometheus is old news so far and Ridley Scott no more "alien" movies coming. If Del Toro shared the footage of the test from her in 2022, then I have no doubt that his heart is still in that. Probably only depends on whether Netflix is ​​more supportive than Warner Bros. and Universal.

Guillermo del Toro's "Frankenstein" was announced on Netflix in November 2025.