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James Wan’s Call of Cthulhu - Howie goes to Hollywood
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To elaborate on this, Call of Cthulhu has a story structure that may not be conducive to the feature film format.
CoC is more like a novella made up of 3 separate short stories that don't actually intersect in terms of the characters from the different stories meeting each other or the events from the different stories overlapping or directly affecting each other. The only thing connecting the 3 stories is the presence of the Cthulhu entity and cult, and the narrative device of one guy learning about all 3 stories.
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I think Robert Eggers would do a great job with this type of film and I can't really say that any of the three films he's directed are something that normies like. Better yet he can make a good film without needing a massive budget.
His next film happens to be a Nosferatu remake that's coming out at the end of the year. I don't think a trailer has been released yet, but I'm planning to see it because I've enjoyed everything else that he's directed.
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100% agree, that would be a great choice. The Lighthouse is basically a study of madness to begin with. Damn now you're making me wish for something that doesn't exist.
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Call of Cthulhu might be the most famous work so I'm not surprised it's what they go for but as others have said I don't think it works nearly as well as an adaptation. The way it's structured and the way it's narrated and everything doesn't lend well to that format unless you're changing stuff around. Frankly the shorter story Dagon would be easier to adapt into a movie. So would other popular picks like Mountains of Madness, Innsmouth, and Dunwich. The Rats in the Walls too even.
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Panos Cosmatos would be my choice. Mandy and especially Beyond the Black Rainbow are both already vaguely Lovecraftian. Unfortunately he's doing some presumably utter shit movie with Kristen Stewart and Oscar Isaac that will probably ruin his ouvre irredeemably.
All that being said, we have all the Stuart Gordon films, and that's good enough for me.
All that being said, we have all the Stuart Gordon films, and that's good enough for me.
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We’re never going to get the del Toro At the Mountains of Madness, I just want a trashy found-footage adaptation of The Nameless City.
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Oh and to anyone who is interested in the HPLHS movies and Dark Adventure radio plays but doesnt want to give any money to those libtards, you can torrent or pirate stream the movies on the usual sites, and you can torrent the radio plays on Audiobook Bay.
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I was just thinking this! If Call of Cthulhu had been an instance of a director getting selected to adapt it instead of a director going out of his way to pick it, he would 100% be my first choice.
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He's unadaptable today because, due to his views and racial pride, hollyjew wouldn't be able to stop themselves from modernizing and niggering up his works. See the ill-fated ""Lovecraft Country"", a purpose-built piece of semite-funded propaganda which was based solely on the concept of "adapting" Lovecraft stories - but with niggers instead. Needless to say it can only be found in bargain bins now. I don't trust the den of vipers, nor will I ever again. Besides, Dagoth already gave us audiobooks of the Lovecraft mythos, which will be better/more uncensored than any hollyjew tripe.
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James Wan is a fucking faggot.
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What connects the three stories are the ephemera (and the Cthulhu statue) Thurston has in his possession. The film would be best if it started with Thurston penning 'The Call of Cthulhu' based on his discoveries, in which we are shown the three narratives as they are consecutively given in the book: The Horror in Clay, The Tale of Inspector LeGrasse, and finally, The Madness from the Sea.
To be frank I'm not sure how else it could be done and still have it make sense to a majority of the audience. It truly could work, but it will have to take a lot of patience and meticulous planning in order for it to not come off as 'clunky'.
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But we know that we all await the visionary director who is willing to take on Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family.
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I concur on this. Even discounting the hallucinations and dreams as just that and denying any hints of the supernatural, The Lighthouse was still in a sense a cosmic horror story, about two men going mad in the face of superior forces that they try to impose meaning onto: regardless of whether killing the bird actually brought the storm forth, or whether there's actually any conscious malignant force driving them to their dooms, it's all irrelevant in the face of the sheer magnitude of the thing that assaults them. Probably the one hipster movie I will unreservedly suck off just because of how well it communicates a feeling of helplessness in the face of the unstoppable without any need for further analysis.
If Eggers brought that to a Lovecraft adaptation instead of fascinating over "lore" and tentacles like most hack adaptations and "references" do, it would be, well, maybe not financially successful but I'd like it (and that's one of many reasons why it won't happen never ever)
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It's better that way. I would hate to see Godzilla vs. Cthulhu and the Avengers meet the great old ones.
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Indeed. At the Mountains of Madness - In the Mouth of Madness, it's pretty blatantly Lovecraft. It perfectly captures the unseen hopeless battle against your doom that Lovecraft is famous for. It could be loud and bombastic at times, but the nailing of the quieter moments is what really set it apart from the wannabe Lovecraft tripe that Hollyjew dumps out. The corrupting pictures in the hotel are a perfect example.
This is the kind of horror I live for.
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yeah Mouth Of Madness was absolutely Lovecraft Without The Lovecraft
that old (but not that old) retro silent CoC was probably about as good as you could hope
I def agree that Lovecraft generally isn't so hot in visual media. A lot of the real fun is his ability to work with the English language. And when it's "this color is unknowable beyond all logic and reason" it works fine in a book, but in the movie The Color Out Of Space is "sorta purple"
which loses a lot
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When I read the line, "The professor had been stricken whilst returning from the Newport boat. Falling suddenly as witnesses said after having been jostled by a Nautical-looking Negro" in Call of Cthulhu I almost fucking died laughing. You will never read that in another book.