Giggity!
First up, obviously, is “Color out of Space.” The next movie, production of which has apparently not begun, is “The Dunwich Horror.”
“Cinematic universes” are all the rage these days, thanks to the billions of dollars in profit that the Marvel movies have raked in. But as the “Dark universe” and “DC Universe” have shown, intentionally setting out to make a cinematic universe is tricky at best. The MCU worked in part because the first movie, “Iron Man,” was *not* really made to be part of a cinematic universe, while “The Mummy” and the Justice League” movies were. Thus they, unlike “Iron Man,” set out not to make a good movie, but to make a good *introduction,* and they pretty much failed at that. So on the surface it would seem that setting out to make a Lovecraftian cinematic universe might be a disaster.
But the thing is… many of Lovecrafts stories *were* set in the same literary universe. “Dunwich Horror” existed alongside “Color out of Space” and “Shadow Over Innsmouth” and “At the Mountains of Madness” and, of course, “The Call of Cthulhu.” Hell, they even exist in the same universe as the “Conan the Barbarian” tales by Robert Howard. So, *IF* this is done properly, a Lovecraft cinematic universe *could* be a perfectly workable concept.
*IF.*
