Animated Biography of H.P. Lovecraft in Progress?

Buzz has developed the last couple days about the potential for an animated biography of H.P. Lovecraft's life. The project is reportedly already in the works, under the guidance of Chris Landreth, an award winning animator. Details of the film are sketchy, and it apparently hasn't been green lighted yet by any major production studio. However, Landreth still gave some basic details:

"It's a film called 'Lovecraft,' based on the writer H.P. Lovecraft," said Landreth, referring to the master horror fiction writer who died in 1937. "We're doing a fictionalized animated biography picture of him."

"We have a script and we are working towards seeing if we can make this work."

If this animated feature can get off the ground, then it could prove very interesting for the world of Lovecraftiana. There's even a chance that an animated movie based on Lovecraft's life could appear relatively close to Guillermo del Toro's prospective "At the Mountains of Madness" movie. If so, then it would certainly be a double punch possibly constituting a breakthrough for Lovecraft in popular culture.

-Grim Blogger