12-28-2023, 05:07 PM
Just found out that James Wan is expected to direct an adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's "The Call of Cthulhu." Not sure how I feel about this yet. On one hand the guy has mainstream appeal, experience in horror, experience in big budget effects films. But adapting Lovecraft while keeping the spirit of the stories intact is a difficult ask. This film should be more art piece than blockbuster. Slow, quiet, contemplative, with a growing, suspenseful sense of dread. Will he, and the financial backers, be willing and able to restrain themselves? I can't help but feel that Guillermo del Toro, who had an interest in adapting another Lovecraft classic (At the Mountains of Madness) would be a much better fit for the project. That said, if Wan loves the material, and has enough creative control, I'm open to the idea that he might have the best film he's ever made left in him.