Oscar-winning director Ron Howard could direct “The Strange Adventures of H.P. Lovecraft” according to Variety.
Based on the Image Comics series, book borrows elements from Lovecraft’s life, such as his family’s struggle with mental illness and his own bouts with writer’s block, and transforms the young writer’s darkest nightmares into reality when he comes across a book that puts a curse on him and lets the evils he conjures up loose on the world.
The film will be co-produced by Universal and Imagine. Universal was interseted in the project based on their history with some of the related monsters in the project including Dracula, Frankenstein and the Wolf Man.
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