Ahead of Insidious: The Red Door releasing in theaters next month, James Wan and Patrick Wilson took part in an Ask-Me-Anything session over on Reddit last week. During the chat, Wan and Wilson answered various questions from fans about the Insidious franchise and beyond, but one answer from Wan in particular really caught our attention.
When asked if he has any dream project that he hopes to someday bring to life, James Wan brought up The Call of Cthulhu, an adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s classic short story.
Of particular note, it sounds like Wan has already been low-key toying with a potential adaptation of Lovecraft’s tale, which was first published in Weird Tales in February 1928.
Wan teases during the Reddit AMA chat, “My dream project, that I have been secretly cooking away on the down low for the last 5 years, is The Call of Cthulhu.”
Lovecraft’s The Call of Cthulhu “consists of three interconnected parts, and is presented as notes belonging to Francis Thurston, a Boston resident investigating the ancient deity Cthulhu.”
Interesting to note, Black Manta quotes the text in Aquaman, directed by James Wan!
Wan was also has asked about his “dream comic book adaptation” during the chat, and his response was Dylan Dog. The Italian horror comic series has been adapted a couple times now, first with 1994’s Cemetery Man and later with 2011’s Dylan Dog: Dead of Night.
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