Richard Stanley Tackles H.P. Lovecraft Tale Color Out of Space
That headline alone is enough to send shivers of delight down the spines of horror fans, and rightly so! Entertainment Weekly is reporting that indie horror company SpectreVision has confirmed that it will produce Richard Stanley’s new film, Color Out of Space, his first movie since 1992’s Dust Devil.
The film is an adaptation of famed author H.P. Lovecraft’s short story The Colour Out of Space, about a meteorite that drives people insane. Stanley will direct and pen the screenplay for the project, which he has been working on for several years. “There needs to be a scary Lovecraft movie,” Stanley said last year. “I want to make a bad trip film, and ‘The Colour…’ definitely has what it takes to be a very, very bad trip indeed.”
“H.P. Lovecraft is the undisputed father of literary horror, and yet, bafflingly, there has yet to be a cinematic treatment that captures the dark beauty of the man’s oeuvre,” said SpectreVision co-founder Daniel Noah in a statement. “Richard Stanley’s note perfect adaptation of Color Out of Space represents an epiphany for me — as it no doubt will be for legions of Lovecraft devotees around the world.”
Casting is currently under way on Color Out of Space, and the plan is for the project to start shooting in early 2016.
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