When you've made a big impact, won praise and scored a huge box office hit with your directorial debut, you can expect to be offered a few other movies and have some clout to be able to set up other projects. Get Out writer/director Jordan Peele is mulling ideas and has agreed to produce a new TV series for HBO and J.J. Abrams' Bad Robot company called Lovecraft Country.
The planned anthology series will adapt Matt Ruff's eponymous book and follows 25-year old Atticus Black, who teams up with his Uncle George and his best friend Letitia to travel across 1950s America to find his missing father. They have to survive both fervent racism and some malevolent sprits that try to stop them along the way.
While Peele and Abrams will be executive producers, the actual work of writing the initial scripts and running the show (it's on a straight-to-series deal) will fall to Misha Green, who most recently co-created and oversaw US drama Underground. "When I first read Lovecraft Country I knew it had the potential to be unlike anything else on television," Green tells Deadline. "Jordan, JJ, Bad Robot, Warner Bros and HBO are all in the business of pushing the limits when it comes to storytelling, and I am beyond thrilled to be working with them on this project."
As for the big screen, Peele has struck a deal with Universal to work on several potential ideas, including his next original film and some micro-budget projects with Blumhouse, which made Get Out.
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