Fantastic New Trailer For HBO's Timely Horror Drama Series LOVECRAFT COUNTRY From J.J. Abrams and Jordan Peele
HBO has released a new trailer for it’s incredible looking new horror drama series Lovecraft Country. This is quite a powerful trailer, and while it deals with some very heavy and timely subject matter, it also involves some terrifying supernatural monstrous elements.
The series is based on the 2016 novel by Matt Ruff, and it’s being produced by J.J. Abrams and Jordan Peele. Misha Green (Underground, Sons of Anarchy, Heroes) is the driving force behind the series as the executive producer and showrunner, and it looks like she’s created an awesome show!
The series follows Atticus Freeman (Jonathan Majors) as he joins up with his friend Letitia (Jurnee Smollett-Bell) and his Uncle George (Courtney B. Vance) to embark on a road trip across 1950s Jim Crow America in search of his missing father (Michael Kenneth Williams). This begins a struggle to survive and overcome both the racist terrors of white America and the terrifying monsters that could be ripped from a Lovecraft paperback.
I love what I’ve seen from this series so far, and it looks like it’s going to telling a gripping, fascinating, and powerful tale. I can’t wait to watch this!
The ensemble cast also includes Wunmi Mosaku (Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them) as Ruby Dandridge, Aunjanue Ellis (If Beale Street Could Talk) as Hippolyta Black, Abbey Lee (Mad Max: Fury Road) as Christina Braithwhite, Tony Goldwyn (Scandal) as Samuel Braithwhite, Jamie Harris (Rise of the Planets of Apes) as Eustace Hunt, Jamie Chung (The Gifted) as Ji-Ah, Jordan Patrick Smith as William, Jamie Neumann as Hillary, Erica Tazel as Dora Freeman, and Mac Brandt as Lancaster.
The series was directed by Yann Demange, Daniel Sackheim, and David Knoller. Check out the new trailer below. The series drops in August.
