Long before winning an Oscar for The Shape of Water, Guillermo del Toro regularly expressed his interest in adapting H.P. Lovecraft's novella At the

“Most of his stories, by virtue of their length, are better adapted to one-hour television programs or 30-minute television programs. I would love to adapt The Thing On the Threshold, The Shadow Over Innsmouth, or The Outsider, which is a horror story that is point of view until the final image.”