Mark it on your calendars. 2018 will bring an anime adaptation of the popular card game Force of Will. An omnibus collection of six animations, the film will include one short created by Shuhei Morita, whose 2013 animation “Possessions” already earned him an Academy Award nomination. Morita’s next task–to bring to life H.P. Lovecraft’s “Cthulhu.” We’ve previously highlighted Lovecraft’s 1934 drawings of the monster to which he gave literary life in 1928. (See “The Call of Cthulhu.“) Above, catch a very first glimpse of Morita’s take on the gigantic octopus. Below, in the Relateds, find a good deal of material on Cthulhu–drawings, radio dramatizations and much more.
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H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Call of Cthulhu”. He doesn’t have a story with the mononymous title “Cthulhu”.
I wonder what the Big Ben is doing in what is clearly Downtown Lisbon, Portugal
Yeah, but Cthulhu is still his creation.
Shortened form.