{"id":33989,"date":"2019-12-14T16:57:59","date_gmt":"2019-12-14T13:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=33989"},"modified":"2019-12-14T16:57:59","modified_gmt":"2019-12-14T13:57:59","slug":"rodionoff-breccia-graphic-novel-being-adapted-for-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2019\/12\/14\/rodionoff-breccia-graphic-novel-being-adapted-for-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"Rodionoff \/ Breccia graphic novel being adapted for TV"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hollywood-watchers report that work is underway on adapting the Hans Rodionoff \/ Giffen \/ Breccia graphic novel Lovecraft<\/a><\/em> (2003). The adaptation is mooted as a possible costume horror-drama which “will take place in the 1920s”. Sounds good, though the first sixth of the 130-page book is actually set in the 1890s with Lovecraft as a boy, which would entail two sets of period costumes. But I guess the zillion TV-series now being made have produced a thriving behind-the-scenes trade in costumes-and-props, and that a Lovecraft adaptation could be cost-effectively costumed with cast-offs from the likes of Babylon Berlin<\/em> and Penny Dreadful<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The Lovecraft<\/em> graphic novel then goes on to feature the adult Lovecraft as the central character. It’s very much a “his monsters and cultists are real” gory fantasy-horror rather any kind of straight bio-book. “Real” in the sense that, for example, in one scene Lovecraft brains a hostile cultist to death with his typewriter. It’s a book that has many good moments in the first half, but in the end the art outshines the baggy story — and it doesn’t help that the dialogue often seems stilted or clunkily expository.<\/p>\n

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However, the TV writers have previously worked on something called Game of Thrones<\/em> and thus have landed a “multi-year deal with Netflix”. So they obviously have the talent to hammer out the flaws in the book. My guess would be that, if not a movie, Lovecraft<\/em> could become a five-part mini-series destined for late-night screening in the run-up to Halloween 2021? There’s no politics in the book, though doubtless there will have to be all sorts of politically-correct changes and slantings made before it can be allowed to reach the screen. Still, if the project can negotiate the inevitable leftist whining without being ruined, then I have a hunch it might<\/em> even be the first substantial big-budget TV depiction of Lovecraft-as-character?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hollywood-watchers report that work is underway on adapting the Hans Rodionoff \/ Giffen \/ Breccia graphic novel Lovecraft (2003). The …<\/p>\n

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