Now here’s a power duo!
Deadline just broke the news tonight that Get Out writer/director Jordan Peele‘s Monkeypaw Productions is teaming with J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot and Warner Bros Television on “Lovecraft Country,” a one-hour drama based on Matt Ruff’s same-named novel.
The series, which Peele will exec produce along with Misha Green, Abrams and Ben Stephenson, has been given a straight-to-series order by HBO. The pilot will be written by Misha Green (WGN’s “Underground”).
“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.
The goal is an anthological horror series from the African-American perspective.
