lovecraft, guillermo, and i

Guillermo Del Toro is shooting H.P. Lovecraft's At The Mountains of Madness sometime mid-late twentyteens. 

If you don't know the Cthulhu Mythos, it all involves creatures of literally unimaginable everything. They are made of a 5th form of matter, and they look like colors from an unknown spectrum. Also, they're city, R'leyh, is constructed with Non-Euclidean Geometry.. ..

Guillermo has said on some internet i've read that he's already got artists and i'd imagine geometrists working on the creatures and the city. 

its gonna be the greatest lovecraft adaption in the history of lovecraft

probably the greatest horror film, scifi film, fantasy film, and any combination of the 3 in the history of film.

you should read lovecraft. 

Anyway, i was thinkin. . . just musin, in general. . 

I think my dream job would be to score that emmeffer. 

think about it, Guillermo, as usual, knows exactly how to get the art department to be cash money and perfect every time. In weird fiction films, The Art Department is the most underrated department, and when the directors don't realize this it shows, but thats why Guillermo, in spirit with his ilk of yesteryear most particularly romero and carpenter, is the effin man. 

I just hope he's that way with scoring.

if basil poleduris (guy who scored conan the barbarian, red dawn, robocop, starship troopers) was a huge lovecraft fan and didn't die in 2005, he would be the man.

if The Cthulhu Mythos are based on light and colors of an unknown spectrum and non-euclidean architecture and a 5th form of matter, wouldn't the sound have to be of an unknown spectrum? non-euclidean music? a sound the dictionary definitions of neither 'music' nor 'dissonance' can do justice? 

on Avatar, another film that isn't out yet that i believe i've referenced in an older post, James horner (he scored titanic and aliens and a bunch of others) is declining all other offers for a long time. AN ENTIRE YEAR working on nothing but this film. he is literally calling in ethnomusicologists, experts on music/culture and culture/music, to develop an entire musicculture/culturemusic for this alien species. 

THAT is the bare minimum amount of time dedication hardwork and inspirado for someone to score Guillermo Del Toro's At The Mountains of Madness.

if i were guillermo del toro, i'd say to my scorer "alright, give me sound from an unknown spectrum. give me non-euclidean music. give me tones that the known world have not yet discovered because they traveled through space so long ago and so far that they practically classified as 'dimensional travel', but most schools of though say it was just space travel. give me a sound neither "musical" or "dissonant". use instruments that don't exist, tones that literally no one has heard before. play an H#+˚ in a phrygian dominant major." 

and the scorer will look at him and say "uh, alright, yeah" but in his mind/under his breath go 'you freakin weirdo' and give 'im some by-the-book junk, interpreting/oversimplifying all these principles of the cthulhu mythos as 'well, i'll just go with the diminished scale' because he can't, or won't bother, think outside the box. (The diminished scale is a widely exploited alternative to thinking outside the box. in my experiences with thrash music and riff-mongrels)

They'll probably call in elfman or zimmer or somebody and they will most likely tear it up, but they will be doing just another project, just another gig. . . 

**disclaimer: danny elfman and hans zimmer are bad to the bone. i aint trashin on them. just clarifying.**

HEY GUILLERMO, if they get internet in new zealand, and you stumble upon this, i really really hope you've already thought through all of this and you're reading stuff you already know.  but dude, call me up, i'll drop everything and work from now till the film actually gets made, and then work some more and do this. i picked up your call of cthulhu reference in hellboy (well, who didn't) and i want you to know that i picked up your mountains of madness reference in hellboy II. comeon man, i'll do it! :)  . . .

i guess.. .