{"id":4624,"date":"2012-04-19T02:12:27","date_gmt":"2012-04-18T23:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=4624"},"modified":"2012-04-19T02:12:27","modified_gmt":"2012-04-18T23:12:27","slug":"lovecraft-project-wins-amazon-studios-attention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2012\/04\/19\/lovecraft-project-wins-amazon-studios-attention\/","title":{"rendered":"Lovecraft project wins Amazon Studios attention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Online retailer Amazon recently decided to start Amazon Studios, hoping to snag original scripts and pitches, and turn them into movies.<\/p>\n<p><em>Fear.net<\/em> has a new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fearnet.com\/news\/interviews\/b26059_exclusive_we_talk_lovecraft_amazon.html\">interview with screenwriter Alex Greenfield<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;His biggest success so far has been <em>The Temple<\/em>, a Lovecraftian tale about evil in the Afghani desert. With <em>The Temple<\/em>, Alex won Amazon&#8217;s July 2011 overall Best Script Award &mdash; then Amazon gave him a bunch of money to create a &#8220;test movie.&#8221; Alex took us through the process of working with Amazon Studios, and tells us about his upcoming genre projects.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Rather than the underwater setting of the Lovecraft story, in Greenfield&#8217;s version the temple is found by U.S. Special Forces in the lawless mountain region between Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/temple.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"temple\" width=\"529\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4625\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Online retailer Amazon recently decided to start Amazon Studios, hoping to snag original scripts and pitches, and turn them into &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2012\/04\/19\/lovecraft-project-wins-amazon-studios-attention\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lovecraftian-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}