LETS GOOOOOOOO (General hangout thread)

[Clancy]

not sure if a plot involving the works of hp lovecraft would make a good family film

I was thinking that the element that would have to be the most carefully handled would be the racism. I think the two things that typically make the Cthulhu Mythos child-unfriendly are 1. the racism (obviously) and 2. the soul-crushing cosmic horror. Element number 2 would be downplayed regardless, but the crux of the story would be the conflict between the racist Lovecraft and the black protagonists, so element number 1 would be addressed explicitly.

Of course, the topic of racism can theoretically be done well in a family film; for example, The Princess and the Frog and Zootopia. But even then, it was muted in the former and presented allegorically in the latter.