Tag: Lovecraft Country
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HBO Cancels ‘Lovecraft Country’ After Just One Season
Our HBO overlords giveth and they taketh away. Hot on the heels of the first look at Day One of shooting on The Last of Us, the cable network will not be renewing Lovecraft Country for a second season, which is sure to be a surprise for a whole lot of the show’s fans. […]The…
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‘We Own This City’ Has the Good Taste to Cast Rising ‘Lovecraft Country’ and ‘Loki’ Star Wunmi Mosaku
The ensemble cast of HBO’s We Own This City continues to grow and thankfully now includes Wunmi Mosaku. Coming off her roles in HBO’s Lovecraft Country and Disney’s latest MCU series Loki, Mosaku is a quickly rising star and welcome addition to the six-hour limited series. Previously announced cast members include Jon Berenthal, Josh Charles,…
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How ‘Lovecraft Country’ Traversed Dimension and Time Through Production Design
Proving a book sometimes can be judged by its cover, Matt Ruff’s fantasy-horror novel “Lovecraft Country” left quite an impression on Kalina Ivanov, even before the production designer considered working on showrunner Misha Green’s HBO adaptation.“I really chased this project,” said Ivanov in an interview with IndieWire. “I had read the book in 2017 and…
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Jonathan Majors to Battle Eldritch Monsters Again as Star of Netflix’s ‘Gordon Hemingway & The Realm of Cthulhu’
Jonathan Majors loves himself some Lovecraft. The Lovecraft Country star is going to continue his battle against Eldritch monsters in Netflix’s Gordon Hemingway & The Realm of Cthulhu in which Majors is in talks to star. It would be Majors’ second team-up with Spike Lee, who will produce the film, after starring in the filmmakers’…
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‘Lovecraft Country’ Season 2: HBO is “Hopeful” Misha Green Will Find a Way to Continue the Story
The first season of Lovecraft Country moved at breakneck speed, with showrunner Misha Green often putting as much plot in a single episode as other showrunners would in an entire season of a different show. Season 1 seemed to have a concrete ending, but HBO is excited about the possibilities for a potential second season.…
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‘The Mother’: Jennifer Lopez Will Play an Assassin in Netflix Movie From ‘Mulan’ Director Niki Caro and ‘Lovecraft Country’ Writer Misha Green
Jennifer Lopez will play an assassin who gets back in the game to protect the child she gave up years ago in The Mother. The Netflix movie comes from director Niki Caro, who helmed the live-action Mulan remake, and writer Misha Green, who created Lovecraft Country and who was recently announced as the writer and…
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Misha Green to Make Feature Directorial Debut With ‘Tomb Raider’ Sequel for MGM
Misha Green is taking on Lara Croft.The “Lovecraft Country” and “Underground” creator is set to make her feature directorial debut, writing and directing the next installment of “Tomb Raider” for MGM.Alicia Vikander will reprise her role as Lara Croft in the sequel to the 2018 action flick, which earned nearly $275M at the global box…
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‘Tomb Raider’ Sequel Sets Misha Green to Write, Direct
Misha Green is making the jump to feature directing with the next Tomb Raider film. The Lovecraft Country creator will write and direct the project for MGM, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.In addition to creating Lovecraft Country, the HBO hit that she executive produced with J.J. Abrams and Jordan Peele, Green is known for WGN’s…
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‘Lovecraft Country’ Season Finale Ratings Jumped 16 Percent from Pilot Episode
HBO’s “Lovecraft Country” has been one of the fall’s most-discussed television shows, and viewers turned out in particularly high numbers for the horror title’s season finale on Sunday.Per Variety, the tenth and final episode of “Lovecraft Country” Season 1 reached an audience of 1.5 million viewers on Sunday night. The statistic marks a season high…
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‘Lovecraft Country’ Finale Review: Season 1 Is Beautiful, Bonkers TV — and Little Else
[Editor’s Note: The following review contains spoilers for “Lovecraft Country” Season 1, Episode 10, “Full Circle,” including the ending.]Pinpointing the bloodiest, most batshit moment of any “Lovecraft Country” episode, let alone the finale’s, is an exercise only for those with stomachs of steel — likely literal steel, given the frank show we’re talking about. But…