{"id":15132,"date":"2014-04-14T02:57:17","date_gmt":"2014-04-14T01:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=15132"},"modified":"2022-07-13T18:59:29","modified_gmt":"2022-07-13T17:59:29","slug":"the-dreamlands-a-lovecraftian-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2014\/04\/14\/the-dreamlands-a-lovecraftian-film\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dreamlands: A Lovecraftian film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiegogo.com\/projects\/the-dreamlands\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/dreamlands.jpg\" alt=\"dreamlands.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A crowd-funding goal has been announced for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiegogo.com\/projects\/the-dreamlands\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Dreamlands<\/em><\/a>, a feature film set in the worlds of HP Lovecraft&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dream_Cycle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dream Cycle<\/a> which, if it goes ahead, will be director Huan Vu&#8217;s second Lovecraftian feature. His first, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.die-farbe.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Die Farbe<\/em><\/a> (2010), is an excellent adaptation of <em>The Colour Out of Space<\/em> which impressed me with its atmosphere and its serious attitude towards the material, qualities that you can&#8217;t always rely on where horror cinema is concerned.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Dreamlands<\/em> will of necessity be more fantastical and so warrants a larger budget, hence the funding bid. I was asked to contribute to the production side of this late last year but prior commitments intervened, not least all the work I was doing on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2014\/04\/03\/lovecrafts-monsters-unleashed\/\"><em>Lovecraft&#8217;s Monsters<\/em><\/a>. I did find time to design the star symbol that&#8217;s being used to promote the film, however, and there&#8217;s talk at the moment of my working on some of the gifts for the funders in the higher brackets. More about that later. Watch the teasers, they&#8217;re very good.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/themed-archive-pages\/the-lovecraft-archive\/\">The Lovecraft archive<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A crowd-funding goal has been announced for The Dreamlands, a feature film set in the worlds of HP Lovecraft&#8217;s Dream Cycle which, if it goes ahead, will be director Huan Vu&#8217;s second Lovecraftian feature. His first, Die Farbe (2010), is an excellent adaptation of The Colour Out of Space which impressed me with its atmosphere &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2014\/04\/14\/the-dreamlands-a-lovecraftian-film\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Dreamlands: A Lovecraftian film&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[42,7,22,26,23],"tags":[1687,2958],"class_list":["post-15132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-film","category-horror","category-lovecraft","category-work","tag-hp-lovecraft","tag-huan-vu"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-3W4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}