Legendary TV developing Lovecraft based TV anthology series

[mrp]

source: Bleeding Cool

News out of San Diego Comic Con is that there might be a Lovecraft anthology series headed to television...

Bleeding Cool recently learned that Legendary TV has been developing the mother-of-all-Lovecraft projects: an anthology series that includes characters, locations and story-lines from sixteen of Lovecraft’s most popular tales including The Call of Cthulhu, The Shadow Over Innsmouth, The Dunwich Horror and many more.

The team behind the series includes producers Lorenzo Di Bonaventura and Dan McDermott, with a pilot script written by Matthew Francis Wilson. There’s also a deal attached that would make this the first TV series approved by the Lovecraft Estate. We’ve also been told they’ll be talking to networks soon. So it might be a good idea to get your Powder of Ibn-Gazi ready as the Outer Gods and Great Old Ones are on their way.

Be interesting to see if this comes to fruition and if they can get it right if it does. I am cautiously optimistic.

-M

[robp]

That's great news, let's hope it's good! We are scratching around for a series to watch at the moment, having finished Ash vs Evil Dead, Fargo, Better Call Saul and Frankenhole!

It's often been said but I think the TV series format would work well for HPL and REH

[Jason Aiken]

There's a Lovecraft Estate?

[Ningauble]

Jul 25, 2016 17:57:07 GMT -5 Jason Aiken said:

There's a Lovecraft Estate?

Yes. Lovecraft's second cousin Ethel Philips Morrish's grandson Robert C. Harrall.

[almuric]

I assume this would be an anthology all set in the same universe? That could be very interesting. But I'm wondering if the stories will be period pieces or adapted for contemporary times, because lots of them wouldn't work in the modern age, IMO.