Forthcoming
Terrors

Here are just some of the Lovecraft adaptations on the horizon. The following films are in various stages of development, from scripting to post-production. Please note: Some may never see the light of day, but they have been announced.

If you have a Lovecraft film in the works or would like to update information on one of the films listed, email me at: pickman@unfilmable.com

Films are listed (on the following pages) according to there current status:

Forthcoming Terrors Page 1 (Development) | Forthcoming Terrors Page 2 (Pre-production, Production, Post-production) | Forthcoming Terrors Page 3 (Completed) | Forthcoming Terrors Page 4 (Unknown, Film Rumor and Canceled or Removed)

Status: Development

At the Mountains of Madness

Production company: DreamWorks SKG
Directed by: Guillermo Del Toro
Written by: Guillermo Del Toro and Matthew Robbins
Cast: Ron Perlman
Plot: Based on the story "At the Mountains of Madness". Read the story here.
Release date: TBA
Website: NA
IMDb: NA
Source: Various news articles and interviews with Guillermo Del Toro. Check out Unfilmable.com News for links.

At The Mountains of Madness

Producer: Greg Stechman
Directed by: TBA
Written by: Steve Alten (author of Meg)
Cast: TBA
Plot: Based on the story "At the Mountains of Madness". Read the story here.
Release date: TBA
Website: NA
IMDb: NA
Source: http://www.darkhorizons.com/

Beneath the Sands

Production company: In the City Productions
Directed by: Aaron Duran
Written by: Aaron Duran
Cast: TBA
Plot: Inspired by the works of H.P. Lovecraft.
Release date: TBA
Website: NA
IMDb: NA
Source: Personal correspondence with Aaron Duran.

Beyond the Wall of Sleep

Production company: TBA
Directed by: Brad Palmer
Written by: Brad Palmer
Cast: TBA
Plot: Based on the story "Beyond the Wall of Sleep". Read the story here.
Release date: TBA
Website: NA
IMDb: NA
Source: http://www.fangoria.com/

Call of Cthulhu trilogy

Production company: Weird Fantasy Productions
Directed by: Richard Joray (aka Charles Dexter Ward)
Written by: TBA
Cast: TBA
Plot: Based on the story "The Call of Cthulhu". Read the story here.
Release date: TBA
Website: Information can be found here: http://weird-fantasy.hplovecraft-fr.com/home.php
IMDb: NA
Source: Personal correspondence with Thibaut Brix.

update: According to Thibaut Brix, the first film in the trilogy will be called "Crawling Chaos". Director Charles Dexter Ward is at work on storyboards and music at this time.

Call of Dagon part 3
(flash animation)


Production company: Box of Flies
Directed by: David Flora
Written by: David Flora
Cast: TBA
Plot: Based on the story "Dagon". Read the story here.
Release date: TBA
Website: NA
IMDb: NA
Source: Personal correspondence with David Flora.

The Cats of Ulthar

Production company: Guerrilla Productions
Directed by: Edward Martin III
Written by: Edward Martin III
Cast: TBA
Plot: Based on the story "The Cats of Ulthar". Read the story here.
Release date: TBA
Website: http://www.petting-zoo.org/Movies_CatsOfUlthar.html
IMDb: NA
Source: Post from Edward to the HP Lovecraft Yahoo group.

The Caul of Brocthulhu

Production company: TBA
Directed by: Mad Martian
Written by: Mad Martian
Cast: TBA
Plot: TBA
Release date: TBA
Website: http://www.broccoliman.com/
IMDb: NA
Source: Personal correspondence with Mad Martian.

The Colour Out of Space

Production company: TBA
Directed by: Dustin Austen
Written by: Dustin Austen
Cast: TBA
Plot: A group of Miskatonic science and media students are sent to document and experiment with an mysterious asteroid that has fallen on a small farm in Arkham. Of course the infernal thing that lives in the well soon begins spreading its otherworldly infection throughout the group. As their minds and bodies begin to fall apart they are forced to fear both the unspeakable horror in the well as well as each other. Based on the story "The Colour Out of Space". Also contains elements from John W. Campbell's "Who Goes There?". Read The Colour Out of Space here.
Release date: TBA
Website: http://www.projectdoomsday.com/
IMDb: NA
Source: Personal correspondence with Dustin Austen.

The Colour out of Space

Production company: TBA
Directed by: Alessandro Ruggiero
Written by: Alessandro Ruggiero
Cast: TBA
Plot: Based on the story "The Colour Out of Space". Read the story here.
Release date: TBA
Website: NA
IMDb: NA
Source: Personal correspondence with Alessandro Ruggiero and Ivan Zuccon.

Cthulhu Strikes Back

Production company: Untamed Aggression Productions
Directed by: James Raynor
Written by: James Raynor
Cast: TBA
Plot: Based on the story "The Call of Cthulhu". Read the story here.
Release date: TBA
Website: NA
IMDb: NA
Source: Personal correspondence with James Raynor.

Dirt Dauber ~ new ~

Production company: Soth of Yog Productions
Directed by: Steve Daniels
Written by: Steve Daniels
Cast: TBA
Plot: TBA
Release date: TBA
Website: NA
IMDb: NA
Source: Personal correspondence with Steve Daniels.

Envy
(The Thing on the Doorstep)


Production company: TBA
Directed by: Stuart Gordon
Written by: Dennis Paoli
Cast: TBA
Plot: Based on the story "The Thing on the Doorstep". Read the story here.
Release date: TBA
Website: NA
IMDb: NA
Source: Interview with Stuart Gordon on filmthreat.com. Read the interview here. The new title came from an article in Fangoria Magazine.

Evil Dead
(remake)

Production company: Ghost House Pictures and Bruce Campbell
Directed by: TBA
Written by: TBA
Cast: Justin Theroux as Ash (rumor)
Plot: Based on characters and situations from the first Evil Dead film.
Release date: TBA
Website: NA
IMDb: NA
Source: http://www.horrorchannel.com/dread/

Evil Dead 4

Production company: Renaissance Pictures
Directed by: Sam Raimi
Written by: TBA
Cast: Bruce Campbell
Plot: NA (contains the Lovecraftian element: the NECRONOMICON)
Release date: TBA
Website: NA
IMDb: NA
Source: Various news articles and interviews. Check out Unfilmable.com News for links.

From Beyond 2

Production company: TBA
Directed by: Stuart Gordon
Written by: Stuart Gordon and Dennis Paoli
Cast: Barbara Crampton
Plot: Barbara Crampton's in an insane asylum and the doorway to the beyond is now through her. All the other characters are able to reappear by coming out of her. Based on the story "From Beyond". Read the story here.
Release date: TBA
Website: NA
IMDb: NA
Source: http://suicidegirls.com/

Get a Shoggoth

Production company: In the City Productions
Directed by: Aaron Duran
Written by: Aaron Duran
Cast: TBA
Plot: Inspired by the works of H.P. Lovecraft.
Release date: TBA
Website: NA
IMDb: NA
Source: Personal correspondence with Aaron Duran.

Haunter of the Dark

Production company: TBA
Directed by: Mike Shkolnik
Written by: Mike Shkolnik
Cast: TBA
Plot: Based on the story "The Haunter of the Dark". Read the story here.
Release date: TBA
Website: NA
IMDb: NA
Source: Personal correspondence with Mike Shkolnik.


Hive

Production company: TBA
Directed by: TBA
Written by: Tim Curran
Cast: TBA
Plot: Based on the novel, and sequel to H.P. Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness, "Hive" by Tim Curran.
Release date: TBA
Website: NA
IMDb: NA
Source: Post from Tim Curran on the Elder Signs Press forum.

The Hound

Production company: TBA
Directed by: Ron Crockett
Written by: Ron Crockett
Cast: TBA
Plot: Based on the story "The Hound". Read the story here.
Release date: TBA
Website: NA
IMDb: NA
Source: Official Unfilmable.com forum


Howard and Howard

Production company: American Entropy
Directed by: Dark Lord Rob
Written by: Dark Lord Rob
Cast: TBA
Plot: There's no odder couple than bookish introvert H.P. Lovecraft and two-fisted Robert E. Howard! Enjoy the shenannigans as the two pulp authors share an apartment in 1930's Manhattan!
Release date: TBA
Website: Information and updates can be found here: http://www.americanentropy.com/
IMDb: TBA
Source: Personal correspondence with Edgar Allan Lovecraft and Dark Lord Rob.



The Last Mile


Production company: Shadoworks Entertainment
Directed by: TBA
Written by: TBA
Cast: TBA
Plot: When Professor George Angell dies suddenly in the rural deep south, Miskatonic University Instructor Melissa Angell uncovers a dark mystery better left forgotten among her late grandfathers estate. Her discovery soon attracts the attention of the "Order of Dagon" a forgotten religious sect bent on the resurrection of the "Great Cthulhu" and the mythic "Elder Gods." Melissa soon finds herself trapped in a frightening world between the reality she knows and a world of darkness and myth where a forbidden and ancient secret has been kept since the dawn of man...
Release date: TBA
Website: http://www.shadoworksentertainment.com/LASTMILE/ (off-line)
IMDb: NA
Source: Personal correspondence with Wade Stai (Director of Project Development). Advertisement in Fangoria magazine.

(Thanks to Steve Hergina)

Lovecraft

Production company: TBA
Directed by: TBA
Written by: Hans Rodionoff
Cast: TBA
Plot: The Lovecraft screenplay is the basis for the Vertigo graphic novel of the same name...
Release date: TBA
Website: NA
IMDb: NA
Source: http://www.comics2film.com/
Personal correspondence with Hans Rodionoff.

Lovecraft

Production company: TBA
Directed by: TBA
Written by: Bruce G. Hallenbeck
Cast: TBA
Plot: Lovecraft is a biography with fantasy elements that tells the story of horror author H.P. Lovecraft.
Release date: TBA
Website: http://www.paganfilmproductions.net/id15.html
IMDb: NA
Source: Personal correspondence with Frank Hummel and Bruce G. Hallenbeck.

The Many Loves of Cthulhu

Production company: King Mob Productions
Directed by: TBA
Written by: TBA
Cast: TBA
Plot: Inspired by works of H.P. Lovecraft.
Release date: TBA
Website: NA
IMDb: NA
Source: Personal correspondence with Anthony Penta and Steve Ahlquist.


The Mi-Go project

Production company: Theory Of Panic
Directed by: TBA
Written by: TBA
Cast: TBA
Plot: Based around Lovecraft's Mi-Go...
Release date: 2007
Website: http://www.theoryofpanic.com/
IMDb: NA
Source: Personal correspondence with Kher Puppet.


Pickman's Revenge

(PM II: The Return Of Richard Upton Pickman)

Production company: Dark Whisper Films
Directed by: Rick Tillman
Written by: Rick Tillman
Cast: John Williams Lynch + TBA
Plot: Sequel to Pickman's Model.
Release date: TBA
Website: http://www.darkwhisperfilms.com/
IMDb: NA
Source: Personal correspondence with Rick Tillman.

update: Rick Tillman has informed me that he is currently working on the screenplay for PMII.

Pnomus

Production company: TBA
Directed by: Andrew Migliore
Written by: Andrew Migliore and Warren Banks are adapting it.
Cast: TBA
Plot: Film adaptation of Pnomus. Pnomus is from DeltaGreen: Alien Intelligence (DeltaGreen: a former government organization whose charter was to study and combat the Cthulhu menace).
Release date: TBA
Website: NA
IMDb: NA
Source: Post from Andrew Migliore.

Re-Animator sequels (4,5 & 6)
(see also: House of Re-Animator
)

Production company: Filmax (Fantastic Factory)
Directed by: Brian Yuzna and Stuart Gordon
Written by: TBA
Cast: Jeffrey Combs and Bruce Abbott
Plot: Based on the story "Herbert West: Reanimator". Read the story here.
Release date: TBA
Website: NA
IMDb: NA
Source: http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/ and http://www.horrorchannel.com/dread/




Saint Seiya: Great Old Ones
(chapter 1)

Production company: Kami Media
Directed by: Vincent Ritt
Written by: TBA
Cast: TBA
Plot: A continuation of the manga and animated series "Saint Seiya". An avatar of Hephaistos, god of fire and enemy of Athena, signs a pact with Nyarlathotep to use the armor of the Great Old Ones, the most powerful armor in the universe. Hephaistos doesn't know that Nyarlathotep is a liar and manipulator, and that his soul will be lost. The first episode will consist of the four hero saints, using old armor (Pegasus, Dragon, Andromeda and Cygnus), fighting against Hephaistos's troops and the Great Old One saints...
Release date: TBA
Website: Information can be found here: http://www.kamimedia.canalblog.com/
IMDb: NA
Source: Personal correspondence with Bob Brinkman and Thibaut Brix.

The Shadow over Innsmouth

Production company: Hindsight Partners LLC (and possibly Saturn Films)
Directed by: TBA
Written by: Rob Hinderstein
Cast: TBD (possibly Nicolas Cage)
Plot: Based on the story "The Shadow Over Innsmouth". Read the story here.
Release date: TBA
Website: Coming Soon
http://www.harlowfx.net/gallery/film/shadow/shadftpg.html
(FX providers, HarlowFX)
IMDb: NA
Source: Christian Matzke and Rob Hinderstein

update: Due to information I received from several people, this film has been moved to the film rumor section. Until more information can be obtained proving otherwise, it will remain here.

update: According to information provided by Rob Hinderstein, this film production is now moving forward. Click here to read more.

update: Rob Hinderstein has informed me that the script is going through the final rewrite...

The Sleeping Deep

Production company: Flickers Pictures
Directed by: Jeff Palmer
Written by: Jeff Palmer
Cast: TBA
Plot: Inspired by the works of H.P. Lovecraft.
Release date: TBA
Website: NA
IMDb: NA
Source: http://www.flickerpictures.com/

Spook Wars

Production company: TBA
Directed by: Rob Sibley
Written by: Rob Sibley
Cast: TBA
Plot: Loosely based on "The Call of Cthulhu". Read the story here.
Release date: TBA
Website: NA
IMDb: NA
Source: Personal correspondence with Rob Sibley.

The Statement of Randolph Carter

Production company: TBA
Directed by: K. Kempelin
Written by: K. Kempelin
Cast: TBA
Plot: Based on the story "The Statement of Randolph Carter". Read the story here.
Release date: TBA
Website: NA
IMDb: NA
Source: Personal correspondence with Emo Bloom.

Strange Case of HP Lovecraft 2

Production company: TBA
Directed by: Mike Shkolnik
Written by: Mike Shkolnik
Cast: TBA
Plot: Sequel to the short film, The Strange Case of HP Lovecraft (screened at the 11th annual HPLFF).
Release date: TBA
Website: NA
IMDb: NA
Source: Personal correspondence with Mike Shkolnik.

The Summoning

Production company: Guerrilla Productions
Directed by: Edward Martin III
Written by: Edward Martin III
Cast: TBA
Plot: Based on the writings of H.P. Lovecraft.
Release date: TBA
Website: http://www.guerrilla-productions.org/Movie_Summoning.html
IMDb: NA
Source: Personal correspondence with Edward Martin III.

The Unnamable

Producer: Greg Stechman
Directed by: TBA
Written by: Steve Alten (author of Meg)
Cast: TBA
Plot: Based on the story "The Unnamable". Read the story here.
Release date: TBA
Website: NA
IMDb: NA
Source: http://www.darkhorizons.com/


Wedangutun: Visión Maligna

Production company: Kaos Producciones
Directed by: TBA
Written by: Gilberto Villarroel
Cast: Bruno Mattotti
Plot: Based on the story "The Colour Out of Space". Read the story here.
Release date: TBA
Website: NA
IMDb: NA
Source: Personal correspondence with Gilberto Villarroel.

The Whisperer In Darkness

Production company: Dark Whisper Films
Directed by: Rick Tillman
Written by: Rick Tillman
Cast: TBA
Plot: Based on the story "The Whisperer In Darkness". Read the story here.
Release date: TBA
Website: http://www.darkwhisperfilms.com/
IMDb: NA
Source: Personal correspondence with Rick Tillman.

Whispers of the Deep

Production company: In the City Productions
Directed by: Aaron Duran
Written by: Aaron Duran
Cast: TBA
Plot: Inspired by the works of H.P. Lovecraft.
Release date: TBA
Website: NA
IMDb: NA
Source: Personal correspondence with Aaron Duran.

Young Howie Chronicles
(Howie and Al)

Producer: In the City Productions
Directed by: Aaron Duran
Written by: Aaron Duran
Cast: TBA
Plot: Based on the adventures of a young Howard [Lovecraft] and Alister Crowley.
Release date: TBA
Website: NA
IMDb: NA
Source: Personal correspondence with Aaron Duran.

Zann

Production company: TBA
Directed by: K. Kempelin
Written by: K. Kempelin
Cast: TBA
Plot: Based on the story "The Music of Erich Zann". Read the story here.
Release date: TBA
Website: NA
IMDb: NA
Source: Personal correspondence with Emo Bloom.

update: Emo has decided on "The Music of Erich Zann" as his first project. He is currently writing the second draft of the screenplay.


Status definitions:

Development
: working on a script/idea
Pre-production: actors are being auditioned, locations are being scouted, and shoot dates are set
Production: the film is currently shooting
Post-production: the film is being edited, music applied, special effects are being finalized
Completed: this film has completed production
Unknown: work has been done, but status cannot be verified
Film Rumor: film has been mentioned, but no work can be verified
Canceled or Removed: film is no longer in production or never was

* Denotes that the status has been updated.


Thanks to Franklin Hummel for suggesting that this page be created. Thanks also to Aaron Vanek for help in getting it started.

Story links courtesy of http://dagonbytes.com/thelibrary/lovecraft/index.html.


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