Hey guys!

I hope I won't get in trouble at my new job at the magazine, but I just can't wait to
share the shocking news! This is my first article for the latest issue of a local movie magazine,
on sale later today, covering a horror convention at a nearby locality:

The Lovecraft Circle Follies

(Translated from the April 1, 2016 issue of CINExpress Magazine)

Over eight decades after the passing of pulp horror writer H.P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) his creations,
and himself, have now reached a popularity he would never have dreamed, and in some instances,
in ways he would have been horrified by. One such instance may well be the newest Brian Yuzna
project, announced only today at a press conference in HorroCon, the Montecruz, Mexico, festival
of horror film, fiction and fandom. Accompanied by Jeffrey Combs and by local horror genre
specialist Jorge A. Lozano, Yuzna showed an exclusive teaser for his new musical film project, The
Lovecraft Circle Follies, slated for March 15, 2017, in time for the 80th anniversary of Lovecrafts
death.

According to Yuzna, the plot with a script co-written by Guillermo del Toro- deals with a period in
Lovecrafts life shortly after his divorce; Lovecraft is going through a rough time, and his friends,
the authors of the so-called Lovecraft Circle, are discouraged by the descending quality of pulp
magazines and the lack of new works by Lovecraft. Then, the arrival of a newcomer, teenage
writer-wannabe and enthusiastic fan Robert Barlow (Asa Butterfield), whose youthful enthusiasm
is baffled by seeing his idols growing apart and practically turning their backs to weird fiction. Not
while Bobby Barlow is around! He then joins Robert Bloch (Andrew Garfield), the youngest
member of the crumbling Circle, in a cross-country journey to seek and bring together the
Lovecraft Circle for a revival of its glorious days of weirdness. Not an easy enterprise, since they
find, for example, Clark Ashton Smith (Simon Pegg) dedicated full-time to his paintings and
sculptures, refusing to write any more Hyperborean tales; Cross Plains great pulp author, young
Texan Robert E. Howard (Chris Evans), has turned his efforts to write stories about boxers and
traveling adventurers; and worst of all, Lovecraft himself (with Jeffrey Combs reprising the role he
already assumed in Yuznas previous film Necronomicon: Book of the Dead) will not write anything
other than lengthy letters and ghost writing. So, the two Bobs elaborate an intricate plot to lead
the master back to his roots, by seeking his former, secret lost flame Hazel Heald (Macarena
Gomez) to hire him for revising a new weird story plot for her. But first, they must convince
Farnsworth Wright (Ben Kingsley), editor of the legendary pulp magazine Weird Tales, to finance
the project -but he is currently considering to drop Weird Tales altogether and become a
Broadway producer! Will the conniving youths manage to bring the Lovecraft Circle back together?
We will find out throughout a series of spectacular musical numbers authored by Andrew Leman,
of the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society.

Will this be the greatest homage to the Lovecraft circle to come from Hollywood, or will this be a
grand, ambitious disaster? What do you think?