James Wan is done with ‘Aquaman’ and has quickly announced his next project. He’s adapting “The Call of Cthulhu.” An ambitious endeavor that will hopefully turn out to be fruitful one for him.
The movie will be based on the iconic 1928 H.P. Lovecraft short story of the same name, which follows a man named Francis Thurston who investigates a cult that seems to be involved in worshipping the ancient cosmic monster, Cthulhu.
Wan, who reshaped mainstream horror with “Saw,” “The Conjuring,” and “Insidious,” has stated that ‘Cthulhu’ was his "dream project" and one he'd been working on for almost a decade now. Best of all, he’s now a free man — unshackled by the debacle that was “Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom,” what with its reshoots, rewrites, on-set drama and failed test screenings.
One of the more recent Lovecraft adaptation was 2019’s “Color Out of Space,” starring Nicolas Cage, and this year’s ill-received “Suitable Flesh”. It’s a difficult task adapting Lovecraft into a feature film. I can’t think of many, if any, that have succeeded in the past.