No, it’s not Hellboy III, it’s the adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s At The Mountains Of Madness, which almost got off the ground with Tom Cruise as a lead, but was shut down quickly because of a big price tag and an R-rating required to make Lovecraft’s hellish vision a reality.
And a popular sentiment seems to point back to one, daunting project that del Toro had tried to set up with Universal.
Guillermo del Toro’s big wins for Best Director and Best Picture at the Oscars has a lot of people thinking about what the now-award-winning director will do next.