Stories you'd like to see a (really good) adaptation of

[Genus Unknown]

Personally, I'd like to see "Dagon" on the big screen.  It's short as hell, but part of that is because HPL skims over a lot of stuff.  The narrator's capture by the Germans and subsequent escape get a mere couple of paragraphs, for example.  The film could show the things Lovecraft glanced over. The first act could be a thrilling adventure at sea, the second act could be the narrator on the creepy tarry island of horror, including the monster and his flight back to the boat, and the third act could follow the narrator trying to fit the pieces together and unsuccessfully try to hold onto his sanity.  It could be a really interesting and effective way to end a horror story, flipping it around and starting with exotic adventure and really strange horror, and then finishing in the quiet, commonplace world, which by this point would seem weird enough itself.  Going straight from giant undersea monsters to a completely ordinary urban or suburban setting would be a bit jarring, but that would only serve the horror; the audience would be watching this familiar, ordinary setting, knowing that there are giant, freaky monsters under the sea.  I think it would work really well.

[Danial]

I'd like to see my favourite story, The Colour Out of Space, adapted, but as the sci-fi it is rather than a horror gore-fest as in the latest Ivan Zuccon film.

Also, I think the concept behind Polaris has some potential. The idea that your dream-world might in fact be the true one and that this life is actually the dream.

[Kaelestes]

I heard a rumor that Guillermo del Toro intends to do a feature adaptation of 'At the Mountains of Madness' after he wraps up some other pending projects. If he treats this as one of his more serious pieces, as opposed to his Hellboy adaptations, I think it will really have some potential.

I'd love to see a number of Lovecraft's shorter pieces get spliced together into a single film like Raymond Carver's 'Short Cuts.'

[Genus Unknown]

He's been talking about doing AtMoM for a long time now.  The problem is that nobody wants to fund it.

[reberclark]

Hey Genus - love your quote!

I thought AtMoM was at Dreamworks development. Maybe I'm behind the times.

I would love to see The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath given The Lord of the Rings treatment.

Also:

The Festival
The Temple

[Kaelestes]

I saw on Unfilmable.com that someone is making a low budget adaptation of The Festival, but the trailer was pretty uninspired.

[TransconaSlim]

I would love to see The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath given The Lord of the Rings treatment.

I had this crazy idea once that it would be really cool to see The Dream Quest as a Studio Ghibli/Hayao Miyazaki anime film.

[Genus Unknown]

I would love to see The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath given The Lord of the Rings treatment.

Oh hell yeah.

Well, Lord of the Rings treatment in the sense that it gets a massively budgeted epic.  I think the story would demand a weirder approach though.  They'd have to find an up-and-coming genius with a touch for the surreal.  The Dream-Quest isn't just a big ol' fantasy story, it's also one of the craziest f*cking things HPL ever wrote.  A film adaptation would have to preserve as much of that insanity as possible.

[Barrucadu]

I had this crazy idea once that it would be really cool to see The Dream Quest as a Studio Ghibli/Hayao Miyazaki anime film.

That would be, quite possibly, the greatest thing ever.

[Danial]

I had this crazy idea once that it would be really cool to see The Dream Quest as a Studio Ghibli/Hayao Miyazaki anime film.

I'd watch that

[reberclark]

Uh...I saw today where Del Toro isn't directing The Hobbit anymore (he's advising but not directing)...any chance he'll try AtMoM?

[catamount]

If we're talking anime...I would love to see a good anime adaptation of 'The Shadow Out of Time.'

[DMcCool]

The Temple

No question.

[helios1014]

The Hound