James Wan has shared the first details about his adaptation of The Call of Cthulhu by HP Lovecraft, but warns that it may never see the light of day due to its approach.
In addition to being known for having entered the DC universe through the film saga of AquamanJames Wan managed to make a name for himself in the industry for his development of horror films like Saw (2004), Insidious (2010), Warren File: The Conjuring (2013) or Evil one (2021). Now, his next challenge will be to bring a HP Lovecraft story to the big screen.
James Wan has always been in love with HP Lovecraft, and one of his biggest dreams was to make a film based on The Call of Cthulhuon which he has been working for half a decade.
deadline confirmed at the end of last year the dreamed adaptation of James Wanalthough at the moment we still don’t know too many details about it, and it is possible that we will never have many more.
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Director of Evil one wanted to shed some light on the production in the latest issue of the magazine empirebut at the same time it has a hopeless message for its fans.
James Wan assured that his version of The Call of Cthulhu will have all the oddities you can expect from an adaptation of a work by HP Lovecraftincluding cities plagued by “non-Euclidean geometry” or a monster so terrifying that it drives anyone into madness as soon as they look at it.
Until then everything sounds great. The bad thing came when he added that, despite still being immersed in the script of the film, there is still a possibility that it will not be carried out: “We’ll see. Actually, I don’t even write it for anyone. It’s something that I love. But it is very esoteric. It’s going to be hard to sell…”
After recent cases such as those of Francis Ford Coppola, David Lynch and John Waters, it is worth wondering if the esoteric adaptation of HP Lovecraft made by James Wan will suffer the same fate.
