Howard may direct 'Lovecraft' tale (VAR)
By Nancy Tartaglione
Universal has acquired the film rights to "The Strange Adventures of H.P. Lovecraft" as a potential directing vehicle for Ron Howard. The Image Comics graphic novel is out on April 8. Variety reports that Imagine Entertainment's Brian Grazer and Howard are producers.
The studio is said to have sparked to the tale as its take on classic horror is a nice fit with Universal's stable of monsters including Dracula, Frankenstein, The Mummy and The Wolf Man.
The graphic novel was created by Mac Carter and Jeff Blitz and borrows from Lovecraft's life while transforming the young writer's darkest nightmares into reality when he comes across a book that puts a curse on him and lets the evils he conjures up loose on the world.
Carter, a commercial director, will write the script and serve as executive producer alongside Blitz.
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