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This film was a trip, he's teaming up with the same production company to do Lovecraft:

Nicolas Cage will star in Richard Stanley’s adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s The Colour Out Of Space | Live for Films

SpectreVision, the boutique genre division of Company X, and ACE Pictures announced today that principal photography will begin next month on COLOR OUT OF SPACE. Starring Nicolas Cage, the film will be directed by Richard Stanley – his first feature in over twenty years. Based on the novella by H.P. Lovecraft, COLOR OUT OF SPACE will reunite Cage with SpectreVision, the company behind the critically acclaimed and commercially successful 2018 film MANDY. The film will also star Joely Richardson (Nip/Tuck, RED SPARROW), Tommy Chong (UP IN SMOKE), Elliot Knight (DC’s Titans), Julian Hilliard (The Haunting of Hill House) and Q’Orianka Kilcher (The Alienist, DORA THE EXPLORER).

COLOR OUT OF SPACE is a story of cosmic terror about The Gardners, a family who moves to a remote farmstead in rural New England to escape the hustle of the 21st century. They are busy adapting to their new life when a meteorite crashes into their front yard. The mysterious aerolite seems to melt into the earth, infecting both the land and the properties of space-time with a strange, otherworldly color. To their horror, the Gardner family discover that this alien force is gradually mutating every life form that it touches…including them.

COLOR OUT OF SPACE will be produced by SpectreVision’s Daniel Noah, Josh C. Waller, Lisa Whalen and Elijah Wood. Timur Bekbosunov, Johnny Chang, Emma Lee and Peter Wong will executive produce for ACE Pictures. Stacy Jorgensen will executive produce for SpectreVision.

South African filmmaker Richard Stanley started career with back-to-back cult classics, HARDWARE and DUST DEVIL, before being released from the notoriously controversial 1996 production of THE ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU with Marlon Brando and Val Kilmer, an event chronicled in the 2014 documentary LOST SOUL: THE DOOMED JOURNEY OF RICHARD STANLEY’S ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU.

In the 60 years since his passing, H.P. Lovecraft has come to be widely acknowledged as one of the most influential voices in American literature, and his work has spawned a multi-million-dollar industry with a truly global fan base. His influence and cult standing have inspired ranks in the horror echelon from Stephen King, Guillermo Del Toro, John Carpenter, Ridley Scott, J.J. Abrams, Sam Raimi, Stuart Gordon and many others.

SpectreVision partner Daniel Noah commented “Lovecraft is the dark father of modern horror, and we have been searching for an adaptation that captures the true scope of his cosmic dread for years. Richard Stanley – a wizard in his own right – will at long last bring Lovecraft’s humbling power to the screen unfiltered.”

Johnny Chang, CEO of Ace Pictures Entertainment, added “ACE Pictures Entertainment is thrilled to finance and co-produce COLOR OUT OF SPACE, our second collaboration with SpectreVision. The adaptation by Richard Stanley is outstanding and unique, a perfect canvas for Nicolas Cage’s inimitable acting style. We are tremendously excited to continue our partnership with SpectreVision and their signature style of genre.”

Nicolas Cage is repped by Mike Nilon of STRIDE Management. Joely Richardson is repped by Gersh and ARG. Elliot Knight is repped by ICM and Affirmative Entertainment. Julian Hilliard is repped by Paradigm and The Green Room. Q’orianka Kilcher is repped by APA and Anonymous.
 
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Slaanesh69

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Neato. I will keep an eye on that one. I think I now see where Vandermeer got the inspiration for the Annihilation series of books. Very cool.

Should I start reading Lovecraft books? I've read a lot of the old classics like 1984 and War of the Worlds and stuff like that, but never any Lovecraft.
 
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Neato. I will keep an eye on that one. I think I now see where Vandermeer got the inspiration for the Annihilation series of books. Very cool.

Should I start reading Lovecraft books? I've read a lot of the old classics like 1984 and War of the Worlds and stuff like that, but never any Lovecraft.

I would say so yes. A lot of (most of) Lovecraft is short stories, including the aforementioned A Color out of Space. Most of his works are a kind of slow, creeping horror/dread. I know it is comparing books to movies, but it's much better than a lot of the horror stuff you see come out today. He actually wound up building his own little universe (Cthulu Mythos), where he references parts of his other stories in other works. Not every story is a knock out, but he has quite a few good ones. I have an anthology book of his "Best" stories, I am sure that there are plenty of others like mine out there.

Specifically look for: At the Mountains of Madness, A Color out of Space, The Shadow over Innsmouth, The Call of Cthulu, The Dunwich Horror.

There are other stories that people love, but the above are my personal favorites.
 
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Hah, this always cracks me up. Dude peaked way early in his career! You'd think by now he'd have done something else to remember him by.

Honestly the only other role I remember him from is That 70s Show
 
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LiquidDeath

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Neato. I will keep an eye on that one. I think I now see where Vandermeer got the inspiration for the Annihilation series of books. Very cool.

Should I start reading Lovecraft books? I've read a lot of the old classics like 1984 and War of the Worlds and stuff like that, but never any Lovecraft.

Agree with cyrusreij cyrusreij , but also check out The Strange Case of Charles Dexter Ward. It is the foundation for the Reanimator movies and basically anything similar. Pickman's Model is a very short story but is imminently creepy even today.
 
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Kaige

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Finally saw this movie, was pretty trippy. They talk about Nicholas Cage's acting as being superb, but a lot of people in it played their parts well.
 
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LiquidDeath

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God damn I want more of this kind of movie. It was just so weird and they didn't explain half of it and it was amazing to watch it get more and more fucked up.
 
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I would say so yes. A lot of (most of) Lovecraft is short stories, including the aforementioned A Color out of Space. Most of his works are a kind of slow, creeping horror/dread. I know it is comparing books to movies, but it's much better than a lot of the horror stuff you see come out today. He actually wound up building his own little universe (Cthulu Mythos), where he references parts of his other stories in other works. Not every story is a knock out, but he has quite a few good ones. I have an anthology book of his "Best" stories, I am sure that there are plenty of others like mine out there.

Specifically look for: At the Mountains of Madness, A Color out of Space, The Shadow over Innsmouth, The Call of Cthulu, The Dunwich Horror.

There are other stories that people love, but the above are my personal favorites.

The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath​

My favorite of the HP Lovecraft stories:
“Stars swelled to dawns, and dawns burst into fountains of gold, carmine, and purple, and still the dreamer fell. Cries rent the aether as ribbons of light beat back the fiends from outside.”
 
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Locnar

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man I have not read HP lovecraft since umm high school (or earlier). I would not mind re-reading all the stories. I think I loved Dream Quest and The Mountains of Madness the best.

edit: If folks have not, you can add Robert E Howard and his conan stories, he and HP were friends and their works kinda have similar style.