Geoff Boucher of the L.A. Times interviewed Academy Award-winning director Ron Howard and found that the helmer was “most excited about directing a big budget adaptation of (Image Comics’) The Strange Adventures of H.P. Lovecraft.” Howard has directed two films that were released in the past 12 months, Frost/Nixon and Angels and Demons, but he has not announced what his next project will be.
According to Boucher, Howard talked mostly about the Lovecraft project, which he described in some detail: “It very cleverly uses H.P. Lovecraft in a fictional way, but there are some loose biographical elements. It certainly has the flavor and the tone of Lovecraft. The character is a very young Lovecraft. Look, it's challenging, but if we get it right, it could be really original and psychologically interesting and scary in a great way. And it's a graphic novel. This is new territory for me… I'm very encouraged by it so far, the approach and the possibilities.”
Last March Howard’s Imagine Entertainment acquired the rights The Strange Adventures of H.P. Lovecraft by Mac Carter, Jeff Blitz, Adam Byrne and Tony Salmons (see “Lovecraft Comic to Film”). Howard told the Times that he had a “wide variety” of projects in development, but after interviewing the director Boucher concluded, “just based on Howard’s enthusiasm,” that “the comic-book adaptation will be the next movie set for the 55-year-old
