Jordan Peele will executive produce the new series “Lovecraft Country,” which has been ordered straight-to-series at HBO, Variety has confirmed.
Based on the book of the same name, the anthology horror series follows 25-year-old Atticus Black, who joins up with his friend Letitia and his Uncle George to embark on a road trip across 1950s Jim Crow America to find his missing father. They must survive and overcome both the racist terrors of white America and the malevolent spirits that could be ripped from a Lovecraft paperback.
“Underground” co-creator Misha Green will write and executive produce the series, with Peele executive producing through his Monkeypaw Productions banner. JJ Abrams will also executive produce through Bad Robot, with Warner Bros. Television also producing.
Based on the book of the same name, the anthology horror series follows 25-year-old Atticus Black, who joins up with his friend Letitia and his Uncle George to embark on a road trip across 1950s Jim Crow America to find his missing father. They must survive and overcome both the racist terrors of white America and the malevolent spirits that could be ripped from a Lovecraft paperback.
“Underground” co-creator Misha Green will write and executive produce the series, with Peele executive producing through his Monkeypaw Productions banner. JJ Abrams will also executive produce through Bad Robot, with Warner Bros. Television also producing.
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