There are two concepts that seem to define H.P.Lovecrafts work more than any other: “Cosmic horror,” and MADNESS. So if you are going to make a movie directly based on an HPL story, you’ve got to stand ready to crank out one or the other or, preferably, both. Which means you should have actors who can act, you know, crazy. Gentlemen… behold:

Nicolas Cage Reuniting With ‘Mandy’ Producers for H.P. Lovecraft Adaptation ‘Color Out of Space’

The rest of the “Color Out of Space” ensemble includes Joely Richardson, Q’orianka Kilcher, Tommy Chong, Elliot Knight, and Julian Hilliard.

Tommy Chong. TOMMY CHONG.

Note that the casting is as ethnically diverse as a late 80’s Benetton ad and likely for the same shallow reasons, or perhaps as a direct “F You” to Lovecraft and his famous disdain for Them Other Folks.

It’s been a good long while since I read “Color” (or “Colour” in the obsolete form that HPL was fond of), but I recall it as being slow and calm with the horrifying decay, not balls-to-the-wall bonkers bugnuts that Cage can do so entertainingly. Still, I’m looking forward to seeing what he does with it.