Amazing news to report as Richard Stanley (Hardware) is coming back to the director’s chair after almost 25 years to write and direct an adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Colour Out of Space”, according to EW. Currently titled Color Out of Space, the story will focus on, “…a meteorite that drives people insane.”
Indie-horror company SpectreVision is producing the film and co-founder Daniel Noah, in an official statement, explained, “H.P. Lovecraft is the undisputed father of literary horror, and yet, bafflingly, there has yet to be a cinematic treatment that captures the dark beauty of the man’s oeuvre. Richard Stanley’s note perfect adaptation of Color Out of Space represents an epiphany for me — as it no doubt will be for legions of Lovecraft devotees around the world.”
Stanley himself stated, “There needs to be a scary Lovecraft movie. I want to make a bad trip film and ‘The Colour…’ definitely has what it takes to be a very, very bad trip indeed.”
Stanley has directed documentaries and short films since 1992’s Dust Devil but, as stated previously, this will be his first return to feature length films.
