Animated Lovecraft...

Back in November of 2007 the following information appeared on the old Unfilmable.com site:

According to RENCI (The Renaissance Computing Institute), Oscar-winning filmmaker Chris Landreth (Ryan) is currently working on an animated feature film entitled Lovecraft. The project will be based on the life of H.P. Lovecraft...

Nothing else about the film is mentioned, and I've found no other news on the project...

Then nothing more, until today when the excellent Grim Reviews blog reported that the project is still alive with Oscar-winning animator Chris Landreth (The Spine) at the helm! According to news gathered from a variety of sources, Landreth is developing the film with Steve Hoban and expects production to begin in 2010...

During France's Annecy International Animated Film Festival, Landreth had this to say about the project, "It's a film called 'Lovecraft,' based on the writer H.P. Lovecraft. We're doing a fictionalized animated biography picture of him." He went on to say, "We have a script and we are working towards seeing if we can make this work."

This is definitely one to watch...

(Thanks to Grim Reviews and canadaeast.com)