Jordan Peele To Develop an HBO Horror Series That Deals With Racist Terrors and Malevolent Spirits in the 1950's

Get Out writer and director Jordan Peele is developing a new Horror TV project with producer J.J. Abrams for HBO. It's called Lovecraft Country and it based on a novel written by Matt Ruff. This is going to be an hour-long series and it sounds like it could be fantastically insane! 

According to Deadline, this will be a horror anthology series set in the 50's that "reclaims genre storytelling from the African-American perspective". The report goes on to offer the following story details:

Lovecraft Country focuses on 25-year-old Atticus Black. After his father goes missing, Black joins up with his friend Letitia and his Uncle George to embark on a road trip across 1950s Jim Crow America to find him. This begins a struggle to survive and overcome both the racist terrors of white America and the malevolent spirits that could be ripped from a Lovecraft paperback. 

The pilot for the show will be written by Misha Green (Helix, Underground), and when talking about the series, she said:

“When I first read Lovecraft Country I knew it had the potential to be unlike anything else on television. 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.”

The show has already been given a full series order, but as of right now, there's no word on when it will premiere. All I know is that Peele is one hell of a talented dude, and I have no doubt that he's going to bring us an amazing series that his fans will enjoy.