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Ten years ago this September!
https://bloody-disgusting.com/tv/3575407/james-wan-directing-know-last-summer-pilot-amazon/
A new series? I take it my wife won't be involved, damn.
This looks fantastic:
Twelve strangers wake up in a clearing. They don't know where they are, or how they got there. They don't know they've been chosen - for a very specific purpose - The Hunt.
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First official image of the sci-fi horror film Color Out of Space:
Based on the short story by H.P. Lovecraft, the film follows The Gardners, a family who moves to a remote farmstead in rural New England to escape the hustle of the 21st century. They are busy adapting to their new life when a meteorite crashes into their front yard. The mysterious aerolite seems to melt into the earth, infecting both the land and the properties of space-time with a strange, otherworldly color. To their horror, the Gardner family discover that this alien force is gradually mutating every life form that it touches...including them.
Directed by: Richard Stanley.
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Tommy Chong and Joely Richardson.
Very few of Lovecraft's stories are "filmable" unless you start taking enormous liberties with the narrative, which, by the way, is fine. I'm not such a purist that I cannot tolerate a Lovecraft adaptation out of fear of some filmmaker not using the material verbatim. (In the Dracula thread, I'm a little frustrated that Dracula adventures are sometimes harshly criticized simply because of the filmmakers' "unfaithfulness" towards Stoker's novel, while it is also asserted that Bram Stoker's book cannot actually be successfully adapted! So it's either a loose adaptation or none at all then.) To be honest, I have seen some Lovecraftian films done very well, despite their obvious dissimilarities to the original story and even to Lovecraft's style and typical story elements. Re-Animator, From Beyond and Dagon are possibly among the better-known adaptations, and each time, it's clear from the start that Stuart Gordon and Brian Yuzna have taken names and situation from the stories and built an entirely different plot around those.
Ergo, the Lovecraft fan in me is actually rather pleased to see that another, possibly high-profile adaptation of The Colour Out Of Space is in the works. Perhaps Cage will bring the right amount of "crazy" to fit the usual descent into madness of Lovecraft's characters. I'm still waiting for (more/different) adaptations of my favourite stories, including The Shadow Over Innsmouth, Call Of Cthulhu and At The Mountains Of Madness, though I believe it would be best if a talented screenwriter merged several stories into one, seeing how, indeed, 'unfilmable' most of Lovecraft's stories are. That said, I'm already looking forward to seeing Nic Cage in The Colour Out Of Space. :)
(*) Here's a list I have taken from both "The Lurker In The Lobby" and Wikipedia:
- Die, Monster, Die! (1965, starring Boris Karloff)
- The Curse (1987, starring Wil Wheaton)
- Colour From The Dark (2008, starring Marysia Kay)
- Die Farbe (2010, starring no-one I know)
- Annihilation (2018, starring Natalie Portman) Although I really hesitate to include this one in the list.
I have seen all of these, some in very poor You Tube quality. Die, Monster, Die! is a very loose adaptation at best. The Curse is probably my favourite, despite it being a mediocre film. Colour From The Dark is more intense but didn't feel Lovecraftian at all. And Die Farbe came in such low quality (not the film, the copy that I saw), that it's hard for me to say anything useful about it at all.https://deadline.com/2019/08/djimon-hounsou-to-replace-brian-tyree-henry-in-starring-role-in-a-quiet-place-2-1202666289/
Starring: Anya Taylor-Joy, Matt Smith, Diana Rigg and Terence Stamp.
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2nd trailer for Doctor Sleep expected to arrive soon.
1st trailer for Blumhouse's Black Christmas remake also expected soon.
I'm not as big a fan of Wright's as many folks seem to be, but I've generally liked most of his movies. The cast looks interesting, though.
I'll probably check this Black Christmas out too, because I'm a relentless completist. Imogen Poots? I liked her in 28 Weeks Later and V For Vendetta, and even in Jane Eyre and the remake of Fright Night. But I found her simply bad in Need For Speed, I'm sorry to say.
I've still not seen that and I doubt I ever do. As for Black Christmas, I skimmed the trailer - seems a bit cheesy, can't say I have any interest in it myself. At least it seems like they're taking it in a twistier, more inventive direction, I suppose, but the original is all I need from the "series."