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Will We Ever Get a Decent Love craft Movie?
Posted on 7/14/15 at 6:37 pm
Posted on 7/14/15 at 6:37 pm
I Del Toro was supposed to do Mountains of Madness but that will probably never happen. Unlike Howard Love craft had been stuck in b-movie hell.
Is the source material just too damn dark?
It had everything else a big budget horror flick needs.
Everyone else from haggard to Howard has had the big budget treatment.
Why is HP the forgotten pulp writer?
I guess my dream is to have the Wild Newton Universe be like the MCU.
Is the source material just too damn dark?
It had everything else a big budget horror flick needs.
Everyone else from haggard to Howard has had the big budget treatment.
Why is HP the forgotten pulp writer?
I guess my dream is to have the Wild Newton Universe be like the MCU.
This post was edited on 7/14/15 at 7:13 pm
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Posted on 7/14/15 at 6:38 pm to PurpleandGold Motown
Re-Animator
Dagon
John Carpenter's Send up is "In the Mouth of Madness" which is pretty great on it's own.
Dagon
John Carpenter's Send up is "In the Mouth of Madness" which is pretty great on it's own.
Posted on 7/14/15 at 6:45 pm to Freauxzen
Dagon was ok. So was reanimator but I'm taking big budget treatment. Milius style. We've had countless Tarzan and conan flicks.we even had a big budget Martian chronicles film. No lovecraft.
I guess movies where humanity is destined to lose doesn't sell.
I guess movies where humanity is destined to lose doesn't sell.
Posted on 7/14/15 at 6:48 pm to PurpleandGold Motown
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I guess movies where humanity is destined to lose doesn't sell.
I'd say it's more that Lovecraft is nearly impossible to put on screen. The stories themselves aren't a good blueprint, actually, and Stuart Gordon constantly struggled with that.
HOWEVER, I think the key to getting Lovecraft stuff on screen should actually be coming from a completely different direction: Board Games (Shock!)
The Arkham Horror (And Eldritch Horror) board game distills the Lovecraft down to much much more narrative friendly components. That's where I think they should look.
Posted on 7/14/15 at 6:52 pm to Freauxzen
I agree.
Zelazny and Bester are two other authors I'd love to see on screen but they are almost impossible to translate...though amber would work now in an HBO series style.
But Zelazny's estate won't allow his work to be adapted after the abortion that was Damnation Alley.
ETA you would think with cthulu being such a pop culture phenomenon wed see something though.
Zelazny and Bester are two other authors I'd love to see on screen but they are almost impossible to translate...though amber would work now in an HBO series style.
But Zelazny's estate won't allow his work to be adapted after the abortion that was Damnation Alley.
ETA you would think with cthulu being such a pop culture phenomenon wed see something though.
This post was edited on 7/14/15 at 6:54 pm
Posted on 7/14/15 at 6:57 pm to PurpleandGold Motown
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I agree.
About 10 months ago I almost started a treatment on it. Like many writing projects, it just never got rolling.
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Zelazny and Bester are two other authors I'd love to see on screen but they are almost impossible to translate...though amber would work now in an HBO series style.
But Zelazny's estate won't allow his work to be adapted after the abortion that was Damnation Alley.
Agreed.
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ETA you would think with cthulu being such a pop culture phenomenon wed see something though.
Cthulu is such a weird phenomena, certainly not like anything else out there. People know it, but don't really know. Fans don't really engage in it on any level because they can't. It's such a tough mythos because the authors who still interact with it aren't really well known. Clive Barker doesn't put out enough stuff anymore, and he was the best bet at bringing Cthulu into the modern age.
But the board game has been enormously popular for Cthulu fans and non Cthulu fans. For good reason.
Posted on 7/14/15 at 7:01 pm to PurpleandGold Motown
It just irritates me. Every horror movie with even a hint of the fantastic is heavily influenced by HP from alien to event horizon. The lurker in the dark is there, but no true translations of his story.
Is it because of his reputation as an anti-semite? Even though he married a jewess?
Is it because of his reputation as an anti-semite? Even though he married a jewess?
This post was edited on 7/14/15 at 7:02 pm
Posted on 7/14/15 at 7:04 pm to Freauxzen
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live Barker doesn't put out enough stuff anymore, and he was the best bet at bringing Cthulu into the modern age.
Isn't Alan Moore doing a Lovecraft comic now?
Posted on 7/14/15 at 8:26 pm to Freauxzen
Actually, Lovecraftian board games and RPG's are wildly popular.
But Lovecraft will never get a straight adaption because the source material is, er, problematic. Like, sort of antisemitic. Also, the style is quite dated. It's why there aren't any great Poe adaptations either. But Lovecraft is still wildly influential on outside works.
And In the Mouth of Madness is amazing.
But Lovecraft will never get a straight adaption because the source material is, er, problematic. Like, sort of antisemitic. Also, the style is quite dated. It's why there aren't any great Poe adaptations either. But Lovecraft is still wildly influential on outside works.
And In the Mouth of Madness is amazing.
Posted on 7/14/15 at 8:29 pm to Baloo
"You fool, Warren is dead!"
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