The Haunting in Connecticut screenwriters Adam Simon and Tim Metcalfe are set to adapt H.P. Lovecraft’s short story Herbert West: Reanimator, per Deadline.
The contemporary reimagining of Lovecraft's tale is produced by Emmy-nominated artist and producer Jeffrey Lewis and Keith Previte, who will both produce for Woodlake Entertainment, with Herbert West: Reanimator being the first in a series of “elevated genre pics” the company will develop and finance.
Serialized in 1922 in Home Brew Vol. 1 #1–6, an amateur magazine published by George Julian Houtain, Lovecraft's short centers on the titular scientist in his maniacal pursuit of resurrecting the dead.
Lewis, the owner of Woodlake, had this to say of the project:
“We are very excited for Woodlake and the amazing team assembled to reinvent this classic horror literature into a contemporary frightening feature film,”
No news yet on who will direct or star.
Herbert West: Reanimator was, of course, also the inspiration for Stuart Gordon's classic 1985 sci-fi horror pic Re-Animator, starring Barbara Crampton and Jeffrey Combs.
Look out for more on Herbert West: Reanimator as we get it.
