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Ron Howard Talks H.P. Lovecraft Project

September 25, 2009

Taking a break from his political films (Frost/Nixon) and Dan Brown adaptations, director Ron Howard is set to tackle The Strange Adventures of H.P. Lovecraft, based on the Image Comics title, for Universal and Imagine.

It's a departure, for sure. And the Los Angeles Times sat down with Howard to talk about the project.

"It very cleverly uses H.P. Lovecraft in a fictional way, but there's some loose biographical elements. But it certainly has the flavor and the tone of Lovecraft," he says. "The character is a very young Lovecraft." Mac Carter, the script's co-writer, is adapting the property for film and Howard says he's just waiting on a draft. "Look, it's challenging, but if we get it right, it could be really original and psychologically interesting and scary in a great way. And it's a graphic novel, this is new territory for me."

For the full article click here.

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COMMENTS (9)

Posted by:

Gollygoop

September 25, 2009

Wonder if Lovecraft will be the racist bigot he was in real life.

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RicoSuave

September 25, 2009

Now that Del Toro is doing the Hobbit films, maybe somebody else should take over the "Mountains of Madness" project. Cronenberg would be a good choice if he weren't wrapped up with the pointless Fly remake.

Posted by:

ravenlord

September 25, 2009

This is AWESOME!!! I love Ron Howard's work and I really think he can pull this off! I've never read the graphic novels so this will be interesting. I do love the Cthulu Mythos. While Lovecraft may have been a racist prick back in his day one can't help but be facinated by the fact that he was writing fiction that was way ahead of its time in regards to Sci-Fi and the like. I enjoy the fantasy out of the story rather than the societal, racial comments he made in his writing. We'll see how this goes.

Posted by:

Paul Rox

September 25, 2009

I wonder if it'll actually take place here in Providence - where he lived and where some of his stories took place. On his tombstone, it actually says "I am Providence."

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Edward Tudor

September 25, 2009

interesting, but could be a rumor

Posted by:

Ryan

September 25, 2009

I bet Lovecraft will be this gorgeous hunky adolescent, when he was really quite an ugly fellow. Brilliant, but ugly.

Posted by:

bothem spies

September 26, 2009

Who cares if he was racist or a bigot he was a horror writer... he was one of the best! If you dont like hime ignore him and his work and let the rest of us enjoy his creations for what they were (great and unique writing) regardless of his personal convictions.

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BoomingEchoes

September 26, 2009

There's a few of you that didnt seem to read the article too well. It's going to be a movie based off a comic book thats based around not only his mythos but also LOOSLY biographical..

I highly doubt Image went ahead and put any of his bigotry in the "life" portions of the story or made it so he's just a boring ugly writer doing nothing but writing.

Not so sure how I feel about Howard doing this.. I've seen how he's done fantasy before and it doesn't come off right, it ends up looking like what it is instead of trying to seed realism. Horror-ish stories probably won't come off much different.

Posted by:

faustap

September 27, 2009

1. Can you maybe start by actually doing a adaptation of some of his books?

2. How can a man who belived in the inferiority of ALL mankind truly be considered a bigot.

3. Ron Howard is the last person who should be near this. I mean how busy are Stuart Gordon, David Lynch, David Cronberg, John Carpenter or any number of people who have actually made films in Lovecraft way that they wouldn't do a film based of his work with a decent budget?
Their enough Steven King films arn't their? But would the average film goer even get who Lovecraft is? Tackle Cthulu, or Innsmouth first.