After exiting from the Star Wars universe, co-creators of Game of Thrones, David Benioff and D.B. Weiss are all set to produce an adaptation of Lovecraft, a graphic novel by Hans Rodionoff and artist Keith Giffen, for Warner Bros. While Phil Hay and Matt Manfredi (Destroyer) are writing the script, it is still unknown whether the Game of Thrones duo will also direct the forthcoming project.
The Hollywood Reporter noted,“The project posits the question: What if the horrors imagined by H.P. Lovecraft, the troubled author of At the Mountains of Madness and the short story The Call of Cthulhu, were not imaginary but real? The script is set in the 1920s, and get ready for tentacled monsters. Lovecraft was a Vertigo graphic novel whose rights were optioned by Warners around three years ago. The project has been quietly gestating since then.”
While plot details for the movie adaptation are currently unknown, according to Variety,sources say Benioff and Weiss’ take will tackle the idea of Lovecraft’s otherworldly creatures being real.
After the final season of Game of Thrones aired in May, Benioff and Weiss went on to sign a massive first-look deal with Netflix over the summer, and hence the duo exited from their previously planned Star Wars trilogy, as balancing both would have been difficult to manage.
