Unfilmable: A Film Based on Blackwood's "The Willows"?

It seems a script is in the works for a cinematic version of Algernon Blackwood's celebrated tale "The Willows," a weird story H.P. Lovecraft famously considered the finest in weird fiction. If it pans out, this will be the first great attempt in recent times at bringing Blackwood's work to the movies. It's also an overdue, but encouraging sign, as an increasing number of classical weird writers have their literary products translated to screen, theater, and games. Here's what the "Unfilmable" blog has to say about it:

Wayne Spitzer (Shadows in the Garden, see: Monday, July 13) has completed a "scriptment" for a feature-length film based on Algernon Blackwood's The Willows, a supernatural tale that H.P. Lovecraft considered to be the finest in English literature. Spitzer's adaptation also contains elements from several other stories by Blackwood including The Centaur, The Man Whom the Trees Loved, The Temptation of the Clay and The Glamour of the Snow...

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