{"id":189485,"date":"2021-02-09T15:00:04","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T15:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gamerant.com\/whats-next-richard-stanleys-lovecraft-trilogy-color-space\/"},"modified":"2021-02-09T15:00:04","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T15:00:04","slug":"whats-next-for-richard-stanleys-lovecraft-trilogy-after-color-out-of-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/2021\/02\/09\/whats-next-for-richard-stanleys-lovecraft-trilogy-after-color-out-of-space\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s Next For Richard Stanley’s Lovecraft Trilogy After Color Out Of Space?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Richard Stanley signaled a strong return to his enterprising blend of horror and sci-fi feature films with 2019’s\u00a0Color Out of Space<\/em><\/strong>. Adapted from H.P. Lovecraft’s 1927 short story “The Colour Out of Space,” Stanley’s first film in almost 25 years is a phantasmagorical nightmare that updates its source material without compromising\u00a0the cosmic horror themes that make it so terrifying.\u00a0Color Out of Space\u00a0<\/em>is the first installment in a cinematic trilogy\u00a0planned by\u00a0Stanley and production company SpectreVision that pays tribute to Lovecraft’s literary legacy<\/a>. What’s next on\u00a0their agenda? A reimagining of another popular Lovecraftian work: 1929’s “The Dunwich Horror.”<\/p>\n

Color Out of Space<\/em>\u00a0impressed fans and critics alike,\u00a0who praised its\u00a0stunning visuals and special effects. Like the story,\u00a0Color Out of Space<\/em>‘s events transpire on the outskirts of Arkham, Massachusetts, a fictional town central to\u00a0Lovecraft’s universe<\/a>. Nicolas Cage plays Nathan Gardner, who lives on a rural estate with his wife, daughter, and two sons. When a luminous meteorite crashes on the Gardners’ property one night, it unleashes a smelly, alien\u00a0mist that mutates everything and everyone in its proximity. Radiant, rich, and\u00a0hallucinatory\u00a0lights emanate from the family’s well as the\u00a0mist (referred to as the titular Color) goes to work,\u00a0transmitting carcinogenic waves of alien energy\u00a0that eventually\u00a0destroy the\u00a0Gardners both psychologically and physically.<\/p>\n

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“The Dunwich Horror” is also set in\u00a0Massachusetts, but this time in the small town of Dunwich. Told from the perspective of an unnamed narrator writing about events in the past tense, the story introduces one of the most iconic backwoods families in horror: the Whateleys. The narrative focuses on Wilbur Whateley, a precocious boy whose rapid development and witchcraft-loving grandfather lead locals to believe he’s the spawn of some inhuman entity.\u00a0The adult Wilbur, who towers over everyone and sends all dogs into a frenzy, becomes obsessed with tracking down a copy of the\u00a0Necronomicon<\/em><\/a>, an ancient book whose spells he needs in order to fulfill some macabre assignment.\u00a0The tale reaches its climax as an invisible, monstrous beast holed up in the Whateley home escapes and wreaks havoc on Dunwich.<\/p>\n

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The particulars\u00a0of when Stanley’s The Dunwich Horror<\/em>\u00a0will be filmed or released remain uncertain, but the director has already shared some promising information about his script. The second installment in the trilogy will occur\u00a0after\u00a0the events of\u00a0Color Out of Space<\/em>, in a near-future Arkham.\u00a0The director also intends to include vital\u00a0plot points from “The Dunwich Horror” in his movie. In the story, Wilbur Whateley travels to Arkham, where he gains access to the local Miskatonic University’s copy of the\u00a0Necronomicon<\/em>. Arkham, Miskatonic, and\u00a0the\u00a0Necronomicon<\/em>\u00a0will feature prominently in Stanley’s\u00a0adaptation. Stanley told\u00a0Rue Morgue<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>his goal with\u00a0The Dunwich Horror<\/em>, just as it was with\u00a0Color Out of Space<\/em>, is “to try to do the original story justice, and at the same time continue to open up the universe.”<\/p>\n

Stanley also shared a major spoiler with\u00a0Rue Morgue<\/em>: “It\u2019s my intention to have Ward Phillips from Miskatonic University be the sole continuing character through the next two installments.” Ward, played by\u00a0Elliot Knight in\u00a0Color Out of Space<\/em>, is a hydrologist\u00a0surveying the water supply around the Gardner property who watches the celestial Color annihilate the\u00a0natural landscapes around it. Ward is the only\u00a0character\u00a0who presumably survives the ordeal. He also dons a Miskatonic University shirt in the film, connecting him with the institution central to\u00a0“The Dunwich Horror.” Stanley’s choice to cast a black British actor as a major player in all three movies\u00a0undercuts\u00a0Lovecraft’s well-documented racist and xenophobic views, most recently explored\u00a0in HBO’s\u00a0Lovecraft Country<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Stanley’s narrative choices so far emphasize many of Lovecraft’s major mythos, including\u00a0alien creatures\u00a0and the pantheon of cosmic deities\u00a0that appear in his stories – from Great Old Ones like Cthulhu to Outer Ones like Azathoth.\u00a0In “The Dunwich Horror,” the\u00a0reader\u00a0learns it’s the\u00a0intergalactic entity\u00a0Yog-Sothoth who impregnated Wilbur’s mother Lavinia. Lavinia gave birth to\u00a0twins: Wilbur and his unnamed brother – the barn-sized ogre rampaging through Arkham.\u00a0Just how much of this Stanley\u00a0plans to\u00a0include in his film remains to be seen. He is also mum\u00a0about which\u00a0Lovecraft story\u00a0will be adapted\u00a0after\u00a0The Dunwich Horror<\/em>, but he did tell\u00a0The Hollywood Reporter<\/em><\/a> this: “I think these movies will climax with a battle between humanity and the Old Ones.”<\/p>\n

The\u00a0future implications of one detail in\u00a0Color Out of Space<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0remain to be seen. The Gardner’s Wiccan teenage daughter<\/a> shares the same name as Wilbur Whateley’s deformed, albino mother in “The Dunwich Horror.” Lavinia, played by\u00a0Madeleine Arthur, disintegrates in a powerful beam of light from the Color at the end of the movie, but does this mean she is actually dead? Even though Stanley asserted\u00a0that Ward will be the only character returning for the second and third films, the choice to name Arthur’s character Lavinia could still play into\u00a0The Dunwich Horror<\/em> somehow. Whatever\u00a0the case may be, the\u00a0minutiae\u00a0found in Stanley’s new, evolving Lovecraftian universe showcases the director’s expansive knowledge of\u00a0Lovecraft’s work.<\/p>\n

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