Nerd Movie News That Would Make Anyone Insane with Fear
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I used to think Cthulhu was as evil as it could get. Now I realize that I was wrong. So wrong. From the LA Times:
After releasing two films this year, Ron Howard is planning his next move, and this week he sounded most excited about directing a big-budget adaptation of “The Strange Adventures of H.P. Lovecraft,” based on the Image Comics series.
“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,” Howard told me during an interview
for an upcoming story on a different topic. “The character is a very
young Lovecraft.”
Ron Howard Is making an H.P. Lovecraft movie. THAT IS THE MOST DIABOLICAL THING I’VE EVER FUCKING HEARD OF. If you excuse me, I need to gibber insanely and soil my pants for the next few hours while contemplating whatever kind of mediocre, vanilla non-terrifying movie Howard will make. The horror!
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