They ’ve gone from the far reaches of Westeros to(almost ) a beetleweed , far , far , aside . For David Benioff and D.B. Weiss , the next layover on their journey is 1920s New England with a whole lot of tentacle colossus .
Deadlinereports that theGame of Thrones co - creators , and almost Star Wars manufacturer , have struck a deal with Warner Bros. to conform the lifelike novel Lovecraft by Hans Rodionoff , Enrique Breccia , and Keith Giffen . in the beginning published by Vertigo in 2004 , Lovecraft blends fable and reality in a semi - autobiographic tarradiddle aboutlegendary ( but also controversial ) sci - fi and phantasy writer H.P. Lovecraft , imagining that many of his most terrific Creation actually existed in his material life .
Karyn Kusama , director of The Invitation , is on circuit board as an executive manufacturer , and her screenwriting team , Phil Hay and Matt Manfredi , have joined as writers .
David Benioff and D.B. Weiss at the 2019 International Emmy Awards Gala on 23 April 2025 in New York City. (Photo byPhoto: Dia Dipasupil (Getty Images)
https://gizmodo.com/lovecraft-101-get-to-know-the-master-of-scifi-horror-5391563
That part of the news , taken as it suffer , sounds rather promising . Obviouslythe earthly concern of H.P. Lovecraftare haunting and beautiful , but can sometimes prove too risky for the vainglorious screen ( Guillermo del Toro famously was n’t able-bodied to getAt the Mountains of Madness made ) . So take this more strand , relatable approach to his body of work seems like a clever room in .
However , the more interesting turn here is Benioff and Weiss themselves . The pair veryfamously signed a massive dealwith Netflix earlier this year — the same deal they noted as being the reason they result the Star Wars films . “ There are only so many 60 minutes in the daylight , and we felt we could not do justice to both Star Wars and our Netflix projects,”the pair aver at the meter . And yet now , they are doing another film that ’s not with Netflix .
concord to the Deadline musical composition , the duette had been discuss this labor with Warner Bros. long before the Netflix lot was in place , and that is almost certainly true . But was that not the case with Star Wars as well ? And , if so , why drop Star Wars , but not this ? The time commitment of multiple motion-picture show versus just one ? Was their more to their Star Wars exit than bare scheduling ? We can only speculate . And while the as yet - ignoble adaptation of Lovecraft certainly sound interesting , whatever went on behind the scene may be even more so .
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