Benioff and Weiss Get A Deal to Ruin Lovecraft
The two delicate geniuses behind the last season of Game of Thrones have returned to nab an original IP and begin the process of initially making it look good, and then eventually missing the mark and ruining it for everyone in the rabid fan base.
The only difference between this property and Game of Thrones is that the guy who developed and created this property is dead and George R.R. Martin is still alive.
From the trades:
Following their exit from the “Star Wars” universe, “Game of Thrones” co-creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss have found their replacement pic, signing on to produce an untitled thriller based on the graphic novel “Lovecraft” for Warner Bros.
With the final season of “Game of Thrones” airing in May, and eventually taking home the best drama Emmy, Benioff and Weiss went on to sign a massive first-look deal with Netflix over the summer. After they signed that deal with the streaming service, the duo exited from their previously planned “Star Wars” trilogy, as balancing both would have been difficult to manage.
Well, it is difficult to manage to wreck two IP’s at the same time. You need to focus your efforts and rather than split your attention.
Complicated Books With Complicated Monsters
There is a lot of love for Lovecraft properties and novels in the world, more so than one would first imagine, and so there is obviously excited about this, backed by the belief that “surely, Benioff and Weiss will treat Lovecraft better than they did that other thing on HBO.”
From the trades:
The “Lovecraft” graphic novel chronicles the life of H.P. Lovecraft, whose books included “The Call of Cthulhu,” “The Rats in the Walls,” “At the Mountains of Madness,” “The Shadow over Innsmouth” and “The Shadow Out of Time” and spawned the idea of Lovecraftian horror. While plot details for the movie adaptation are currently unknown, sources say Benioff and Weiss’ take will tackle the idea of Lovecraft’s otherworldly creatures being real.
And this will be about Lovecraft’s actual real life?
Yes, in the hands of Benioff and Weiss, this can’t miss.
What Are We To Make of All of This?
As has been mentioned before, Benioff and Weiss are doing a two-step based on the Hollywood goodwill they have managed to garner from taking Game of Thrones—in the opinion of the Hollywood power brokers, see their Emmy win—to new heights: make promises to develop an impossible to adapt property with a rabid fan base.
From the trades:
Interest in adapting Lovecraft’s stories has swirled around Hollywood for years, most recently with Universal and Guillermo del Toro trying to adapt “At the Mountains of Madness.” That project was shelved due to budgeting, but there was still plenty of interest in adapting Lovecraft’s tales.
Del Toro couldn’t turn a successful Lovecraft interpretation around, but Benioff and Weiss will?
Benioff and Weiss will continue their pattern of signing deals to “first look” at all of these ideas and proposed adaptations, but, because they really aren’t that creative or driven, will pass—eventually—on all of them, disappointing the aforementioned rabid fan bases.
