Image comic book being adapted!
The rights for “The Strange Adventures of H.P. Lovecraft,” the Image Comics title we first introduced to you here, have been picked up by Universal and Imagine Entertainment. Variety reports the material could be a directing vehicle for Ron Howard (The Da Vinci Code).
The book’s co-creator Mac Carter is adapting the story into a screenplay and will serve as an executive producer along with co-creator Jeff Blitz. Both have a background in commercials. Brian Grazer, Howard and David Bernardi, and Chris Wade are producing.
Lovecraft borrows elements from the author’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.
Universal is reportedly attached to another Lovecraft property: Guillermo del Toro’s adaptation of “At the Mountains of Madness.”
Source: Variety
