HBO Announces Summer Release Date for Jordan Peele and J.J. Abrams Series LOVECRAFT COUNTRY
HBO has given audiences something exciting to look forward to this summer with a release date for the upcoming series, Lovecraft Country. The series was created by Jordan Peele and Misha Green, who co-wrote the script from the novel by Matt Ruff. J.J. Abrams is producing.
Here’s the synopsis from HBO:
Based on Matt Ruff 's novel of the same name, Lovecraft Country follows Atticus Freeman (Jonathan Majors) as he meets up with his friend Letitia (Jurnee Smollett) 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.
The release date has been set for August 16th, which is something exciting to look forward to during what is a summer at home for most of us. Check out the latest teaser for the series below, and let us know if you’re stoked for this series.