Comments | allova: The stars are right!

allova

The stars are right!

Jul 30, 2010 00:27

Okay, so, I've got a Masters to be working on, but this is relevant, I swear. In fact, so relevant that...well, you'll see. Guilermo del Toro is an amazing director. You might remember him from such things as Hellboy, Hellboy II, Blade II and Pan's Labyrinth. He's also this massive Lovecraft fan, and there were rumours that he would make Lovecraft' ( Read more... )

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norectangulars July 30 2010, 01:54:46 UTC

Wow, that would be cool!
But a move to Wgtn would be pretty drastic no? Although, they might do some shooting around auckland

allova July 30 2010, 02:20:29 UTC

What's drastic about moving to Wellington to be part of something THIS EPIC?

Anyway, Wellington's not the only place in NZ they make movies. Moo got steady work in Auckland on sets, ableit I guess a lot of that was TV.

norectangulars July 30 2010, 12:47:24 UTC

Oh, I just figured he'd be hooking up with Weta Workshop, but that'd only be the post production special effects type stuff.

mashugenah July 30 2010, 04:23:03 UTC

Slightly tangential - someone was asking me about "who is Cthulhu" the other day, and I gave a short spiel about us as pond scum and the old ones as fish... I was wondering though, if you could recommend a couple of key stories for me to recommend. I've browsed Lovecraft, but you're an actual expert.

allova July 30 2010, 13:42:24 UTC

Aw shucks, 'expert'! I've been answering this question a lot recently and I've been thinking of putting some kind of post here and on Facebook as a starter's guide to Lovecraft.

But anyway. Lovecraft's work is a bit hit and miss. He did write pulp, and not all of his stories were great (like most writers, I guess) His tone and content also varied a lot, his writing ranged between sci-fi and supernatural horror, and from the cosmic to the personal ( ... )

mashugenah August 2 2010, 02:53:17 UTC

Thanks. :)