Polemical horror gets weird fiction treatment: Yann Demange to direct 1st episode of J.J. Abrams' & Jordan Peele's Lovecraft Country on HBO

Yann Demange (director of ’71 and Top Boy) will be making his US TV debut in directing the first episode of HBO’s Lovecraft Country from newly minted Oscar winner Jordan Peele and J.J. Abrams. Lovecraft Country is based on the 2016 novel from Matt Ruff with the screen treatment by Misha Green. It follows Atticus Black with his friend Letitia and his Uncle George as they journey across Jim Crow America in the 1950's to find Black's missing father. In the process, they must survive the racist ...