The official site for The Curse of Yig, the forthcoming Lovecraft adaptation from Paul von Stoetzel (Asleep in the Deep) and Tim Uren (Chuck and Dexter), is now online (webdesign courtesy of Richard Molby)! The film, scheduled for production in January of 2010, can also be found over on facebook...
In other Yig news, actor Conor Timmis (Pickman's Model, The Whisperer in Darkness, Re-Animator: 1942) has been cast in the role of Joe Compton and Amy Schweikhardt, who starred in the two person stage version of The Curse of Yig with Tim Uren, will be playing the duel roles of Zealia Bishop and Audrey Davis. Tim Uren, who is also writing the script, will be playing the roles of Dr. McNeill and Walker Davis...
The film, based on the short story by H.P. Lovecraft and Zealia Bishop, centers around a couple, newly arrived in Oklahoma around 1880, who learn about the local legends surrounding the "Snake God" Yig, who takes vengeance on those who kill serpents by killing them or turning them into half-snake monsters...
The husband who has Ophidiophobia (a fear of snakes), which isn't helped by his wife disturbing a nest of rattlesnakes, and his wife go through rituals to keep Yig away, but they fail in the end, and in fear the woman kills her own husband, thinking he is Yig...
In the end, the woman is taken to an asylum and dies there...but not before giving birth...
(Thanks to Paul von Stoetzel and Conor Timmis)
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Thanks Craig for helping to pimp our little nightmare during preproduction. We're having a lot of good people come out and show a lot of interest in this, but we definitely could use more help. Thanks a lot!- Paul von Stoetzel
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