HP Lovecraft..ya know...for kids?

[O.Supreme]

[mbozzo]

I has to wonder, how many kids are going to watch and/or want this movie.

[mr.negativity]

[mr.negativity]

[lhb412]

They turned down Guillermo del Toro, James Cameron, and Tom Cruise's Lovecraft movie because it was too expensive and they approve a big-budget Lovecraft movie by these two schmucks?

[The Shadow]

Huh... it's not even a direct Lovecraft adaptation, but a film adaptation of a graphic novel.

Even the graphic novel's premise "what if the things Lovecraft wrote about were real?" is not original. It is not a common conceit today, but the idea of "this story is real and I'm just the guy/gal writing it down was common a century ago; Edgar Rice Burroughs used it for John Carter and Tarzan, H. Rider Haggard used for KING SOLOMON'S MINES (which has yet to receive an accurate adaptation, though I confess to enjoying the 1985 Cannon Films movie). WB may have been able to make a movie with a similar approach as the graphic novel, but it's probably cheaper in the long run to just license the graphic novel than deal with legal headaches later.

[Dr Kain]

[william newell]

[Baltan II]

I know mr.negativity only revived this thread because he found the closest existing topic he could about Lovecraft but I kinda love how O.Supreme’s original post really DID turn out to be a kids’ movie!

[Rody]

[mr.negativity]

[william newell]

[mr.negativity]

[mr.negativity]

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