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While he's considered one of the grandmasters of the modern horror genre, it's a crime that none of H.P. Lovecraft's works have been turned into a major movie. His ideas about elder gods from beyond space and humanity being but a speck of dust to their cravings have been mined by Hollywood and other novelists for 80 years.

Lovecraft's biggest advocate in showbiz is Guillermo del Toro. The Mexican filmmaker has longed to make a movie out of Lovecraft's seminal work, At the Mountains of Madness, only to find that the appetite for such a dystopian tale of adventure at the south pole lacking from the movie studios.

Now it looks like del Toro has been given the creative support he needed to make Mountains a go-picture. According to Deadline's Mike Fleming, Avatar's James Cameron has stepped up to serve as a producer on At the Mountains of Madness. Cameron will also bring along his proprietary 3D camera gear to make Mountains into something truly awful to see (in a very good way.) Fleming adds that Universal will want del Toro to shoot the movie next summer.

First published in the pages of Astounding Stories in 1936, At the Mountains of Madness tells the tale of an ill-fated Antarctic expedition. After the explorers discover a mountain range higher than the Himalayas they discover the remains of six horrific creatures, neither plant nor animal. Further discoveries uncover that the beings were the first living creatures on the Earth, spawned at the inception of our planet, and that they want to return to dominance once again.