Lovecraft's in the Details...

Writer/director Pascal Laugier (Martyrs) is set to direct Details, a feature film based on a short story by China Mieville (from his collection Looking for Jake). The story, which also appeared in The Children of Cthulhu: Chilling New Tales Inspired by H.P. Lovecraft (edited by John Pelan and Benjamin Adams), revolves around a boy who is charged with caring for a mysterious old woman, when he discovers that strange and frightening forces live hidden in the lines, cracks and creases of our world...

In a recent Fangoria.com article, Laugier had this to say about the project, "That's a project with Paramount Vantage based on a novella by the famous, hip London-based writer China Mieville. The story, inspired by H.P. Lovecraft's writings, is about a boy looking after a weird old woman who discovers strange forces hidden in the creased fabric of our world. Mieville is a smart guy and a very dark horror writer. I've been adapting the story into a new script for six weeks now, and it's a very complicated assignment. It's more a piece of abstract literature you feel in your gut, and straightening it out into a more literal screenplay is hard."

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(Thanks to www.fangoria.com)