First Image from 'Color Out of Space' - Starring Nicolas Cage & Tommy Chong - HP Lovecraft adaption about a town being struck by a meteorite and the fallout is catastrophic.
First Image from 'Color Out of Space' - Starring Nicolas Cage & Tommy Chong - HP Lovecraft adaption about a town being...
Aiden Cook
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Tyler Young
Im being super skeptical. Being a Lovecraft fan, I don’t have particularly high expectations, as previous attempts have failed miserably. Lovecraft’s mythos is almost impossible to properly bring to the visual medium. For example, with this story, it’s involves a color outside the spectrum of our Universe. His mythos is very vague and unclear. Characters usually end up going insane, either by merely just looking at the being or going crazy by thinking about it over and over nonstop. Also, cosmic horror isn’t just about what to see or not see from out elsewhere in the Universe, it’s existential. For example, here’s the opening of The Call of Cthulhu, “The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.”
You can’t properly portray that on-screen. I love movies like everyone else on this subreddit. However, there are some writings that just don’t don’t work for the screen, Lovecraft’s mythos is 1 of those.
Nathan Wood
There a thread about it:
Isaiah Stewart
>Tommy Chong
>Produced by Frodo
They are really trying to do something here, aren't they?
Levi James
''Will it be kino than German kino''
What sort of fucking nigger title is that
How in the fuck is anyone meant to kow what its about?
Aiden Brooks
Reminder that Shadow over Innsmouth is 100% filmable but Hollywood just doesn't want to.
Evan Thompson
Because the theme is race mixing is bad
Hudson Lee
>I love movies like everyone else on this subreddit
>I love movies like everyone else on this subreddit
>I love movies like everyone else on this subreddit
>I love movies like everyone else on this subreddit
>I love movies like everyone else on this subreddit
>I love movies like everyone else on this subreddit
Parker Gray
Elija Wood produces some weird movies.
James Baker
As long as they emphasize mood and atmosphere then I'll be happy. Annihilation was very Lovecraftian but they had to throw in some action to keep the plebs invested. Otherwise it got that alien sense of otherworldliness that most Lovecraft adaptations fail to have!!!FACT!!!
James Cruz
>Elija Wood produces some weird movies.
He helped get Funeral Parade of Roses digitally restored and released for which I'm grateful. It's a masterpiece!!!FACT!!! youtu.be
William Lopez
they wouldn't be "race" mixing, they would be inter-species bestializing
Sebastian Flores
hope they don't fuck this one up
Easton Thompson
I like that, good for him
John Ortiz
Literally a poor man's Annihilation
Lincoln Lewis
>Nicolas Cage
How can this shit be serious now?
Ethan Allen
>They didnt use an actual new color
Lame
Jace Lee
Exactly my thoughts.
Jose Moore
>starring nicholas cage
Is there any phrase that simultaneously inspires hope and fear to such a degree as this?
Charles Bennett
I agree user, good post. I can't help but feel that these stories also need to be contextualized with their time. I read the mountains of madness the other day, which I enjoyed a lot. I also got the feeling that I would react very different to the story than if I had been a contemporary of lovecrafts. While i understand the peril and confusion of the characters, The city in the book and the mountain beyond didnt evoke the same sense of dread and fear, because in our modern age, a city and a mountain, however full of monsters and terror, could be annihilated in seconds. Does that make sense? The scale just seemed off to my modern sensibilities. The isolation of it all didn't seem as dire too. I can't help but wonder how lovecraft would change his settings were he alive today. Although don't get me Wrong, I still thoroughly enjoyed his stories, some of the ideas he creates terror from seems a bit of its time. Some not though I'll concede
Blake Jackson
That still alone looks better than anything in Annihilation.
Isaiah Garcia
war of the worlds had a similar problem
the lofty prose (specifically in the very beginning) is what leaves a lasting impression on you when you read it
then when it appeared on the big screen, it lacked that thoughtful and pretentious narration - so the end result was just kind of bland.
Blake Davis
Eli Parker
>NOOOO NOT THE TENTACLES NOOOOOOO
Chase Garcia
Thomas Evans
>t. Netdix shills
William Rivera
do you think it will even come close?
Justin Lee
>hey this movie looks a lot like this other movie
>OMG ARE YOU A SHILL FOR THAT OTHER MOVIE??????
Get your brain checked out, holy fuck.
Hudson Torres
It's literally the shimmer with just a little more purple
Evan Martinez
do you think we will get a transdimensional anus and silver surfer dance number too then?
Samuel Anderson
You really just don't know what you're talking about m8. The color grading, depth, lighting, framing, literally everything is better.
Brayden Richardson
>hey this movie looks a lot like this other movie
>OMG ARE YOU A SHILL FOR THAT OTHER MOVIE??????
>Get your brain checked out, holy fuck.
Bentley Johnson
In movies? No.
Chase Ortiz
This is a shockingly accurate description of Annihilation. Good show, lad.