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Jordan Peele and J.J. Abrams teaming for Lovecraft Country

May 19, 2017 by Gary Collinson

Fresh from the success of Get Out, Jordan Peele and his Monkeypaw Productions company are teaming with J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot for a TV adaptation of Matt Ruff’s 2016 novel Lovecraft Country, which has been given a straight-to-series order from HBO. The pilot is being written by Misha Green (Underground), who will also serve as showrunner, with Peele and Abrams as executive producers.

Lovecraft Country “focuses on 25-year-old Atticus Black. After his father goes missing, Black joins up with his friend Letitia and his Uncle George to embark on a road trip across 1950s Jim Crow America to find him. This begins a struggle to survive and overcome both the racist terrors of white America and the malevolent spirits that could be ripped from a Lovecraft paperback.”

“When I first read Lovecraft Country I knew it had the potential to be unlike anything else on television,” said Green. “Jordan, J.J., Bad Robot, Warner Bros. and HBO are all in the business of pushing the limits when it comes to storytelling, and I am beyond thrilled to be working with them on this project.”

According to Deadline, the goal with the show is to craft “an anthological horror series that reclaims genre storytelling from the African-American perspective.”

Originally published May 19, 2017. Updated April 15, 2018.

Filed Under: Gary Collinson, News, Television Tagged With: J.J. Abrams, Jordan Peele, Lovecraft Country

About Gary Collinson

Gary Collinson is a film, TV and digital content producer and writer, who is the founder of the pop culture website Flickering Myth and producer of the gothic horror feature film 'The Baby in the Basket' and the upcoming suspense thriller 'Death Among the Pines'.

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