Official Lovecraft Country Thread

[Bigbigguy]

EXCLUSIVE: Get Out writer-director Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions is teaming with J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot and Warner Bros Television on Lovecraft Country, a one-hour drama that has been given a straight-to-series order by HBO. The pilot will be written by Underground executive producer/writer Misha Green. Peele will be exec producer along with Green, Abrams and Ben Stephenson. Green will also be showrunner.

There is connective tissue to Peele’s breakout genre feature Get Out, which brought a Black Lives Matter theme to the horror genre. Lovecraft Country focuses on 25-year-old Atticus Black. After his father goes missing, Black joins up with his friend Letitia and his Uncle George to embark on a road trip across 1950s Jim Crow America to find him. This begins a struggle to survive and overcome both the racist terrors of white America and the malevolent spirits that could be ripped from a Lovecraft paperback. The goal is an anthological horror series that reclaims genre storytelling from the African-American perspective.



Peele brought the book to Bad Robot and enlisted Green.

“When I first read Lovecraft Country I knew it had the potential to be unlike anything else on television,” Green said. “Jordan, JJ, Bad Robot, Warner Bros and HBO are all in the business of pushing the limits when it comes to storytelling, and I am beyond thrilled to be working with them on this project.”

This comes after his Monkeypaw banner was staked to a first-look film deal at Universal. Universal-based Blumhouse made Peele’s breakout genre hit Get Out, which has grossed $215 million worldwide on a $4.5 million budget. He formed Monkeypaw in 2012 to tell stories in comedy, horror and other genres, but his genre work is quickly overtaking his previous identity in comedy from MADtv and the Emmy- and Peabody-winning Comedy Central series Key & Peele.

Monkeypaw also produced Keanu, the film he starred in with his longtime TV series partner Keegan-Michael Key.

Peele is repped by CAA, Principato-Young and Jared Levine, and Green by CAA.

http://deadline.com/2017/05/jordan-peele-lovecraft-country-hbo-series-misha-green-1202095066/

 

[David_TheMan]

Kind of running this shyt into the ground.

 

[Scottie Drippin]

Kind of running this shyt into the ground.

Be mas at more black programming on television, brehs.

Have you read the source material or atleast the synopsis in the OP?

This theme has potential for classic, and culturally important storytelling. So excited to see this is happening.

 

[David_TheMan]

Be mas at more black programming on television, brehs.

Have you read the source material or atleast the synopsis in the OP?

This theme has potential for classic, and culturally important storytelling. So excited to see this is happening.

Black programming or black targeted programming isn't a plus to me, black ownership of the delivery and content is the real goal. That said I'm not mad at him for making moves and getting anything done.
It just seems that they are going to pigeonhole him into being the guy who makes black horror movies, isntead of horror movies with black people.

As for culturally important, stop it, movies are just movies, entertainment, nothing more and nothing less to me.

 

[Big Dick]

This should be piff

 

[Ziggiy]

Interesting concept

 

[Tical]

Since it's an anthology and only a 1 season commitment they can probably get some big name actors in the leading roles.

 

[FlyRy]

Kind of running this shyt into the ground.

After one project?

 

[David_TheMan]

After one project?

Get out, this, and there was another project he was supposed to be attached to that was a "black" horror movie.

 

[Scottie Drippin]

Black programming or black targeted programming isn't a plus to me, black ownership of the delivery and content is the real goal. That said I'm not mad at him for making moves and getting anything done.
It just seems that they are going to pigeonhole him into being the guy who makes black horror movies, isntead of horror movies with black people.

As for culturally important, stop it, movies are just movies, entertainment, nothing more and nothing less to me.

Then you're a fukking idiot. Entertainment is where the world, by and large, formulates opinions and stance on people and cultures they're unfamiliar with, and helps dictate every decision they make in regards to them.

A black dude makes one movie and announces another black show and it's too much? We've got a century's worth of a million white everythings and two black genre works are where you call it quits?

What the fukk is wrong with you

Your horror movie with black people/black horror movie point would have a SHRED of validity if Get Out wasn't a historic success and achievement and if the source material for this show wasn't incredible. You can't make it a question of quality or delivery when the quality and delivery has been incredible.

No, as of right now, this is a question of representation, and there is only one right answer.

Yes, this is good news.

We're getting an innovative black work, written by a damn fine writer, produced by someone who has just delivered a classic, on THE premiere network for serial drama in the world. There ain't a damn straw to be clutched at here.

 

[wire28]

Got damn look at my man Peele

to the man he really made it

 

[Real]

Black programming or black targeted programming isn't a plus to me, black ownership of the delivery and content is the real goal. That said I'm not mad at him for making moves and getting anything done.
It just seems that they are going to pigeonhole him into being the guy who makes black horror movies, isntead of horror movies with black people.

As for culturally important, stop it, movies are just movies, entertainment, nothing more and nothing less to me.

Shut up, c00n

 

[Jx2]

This is actually very interesting brehs. There are layers to Peele signing on to make a Lovecraft series. Lovecraft's inspiration for the macabre was actually derived from his own constant fear of other races and the growing personal sentiment that they were invading his country


Relevant and pretty fukking brilliant

 

[Ain't That Something]

Got damn look at my man Peele

to the man he really made it

Yo brother is @David_TheMan Marvel stans official take on black making movies

 

[Ain't That Something]

Shut up, c00n

But he aint black tho