HBO’s tasty and timely new sci-fi seriesLovecraft Countryfinally has a release date. The forthcoming series starsJonathan Majors,Jurnee Smollett-Bell,Courtney B. Vance, andMichael K. Williams. The series was created byMisha Green(Underground) andJordan Peele(Get Out) and is based on the novel of the same name by authorMatt Ruff.
Lovecraft Countrywill debut on HBO on Sunday, August 16, per a very spooky new poster featuring some ominous-looking tentacles emerging from parts unknown. Despite the poster’s lean into minimalism, it echoes themost recent trailer, which teases all of the thrills and chills awaiting us. As we’ve seen,Lovecraft Countryfollows Atticus Black (Majors), a Black Korean War vet propelled into a search for his missing father, Montrose (Williams), after Atticus receives an odd letter from him. Bringing along his uncle, George (Vance), and childhood friend Letitia (Smollett-Bell), the trio head across 1950s Jim Crow America to a New England full of supernatural beings and racist white folks who may or may not be dealing in the occult.
Lovecraft Countryis executive produced by Green, Peele,J.J. Abrams,Bill Carraro,Yann Demange(who also directed Episode 1),Daniel Sackheim(who also directed Episodes 2 and 3) andDavidKnoller(executive producer on Episode 1).
Lovecraft Countrydebuts on HBO on Sunday, August 16 at 9/8c. Check out the poster teasing the spooky and timely new series below.
Here’s the official synopsis forLovecraft Country:
From showrunner and executive producer Misha Green, HBO’s new drama seriesLovecraft Countryis based on the novel of the same name by Matt Ruff. The ten-episode series follows Atticus Freeman (Jonathan Majors) as he journeys with his childhood friend Letitia (Jurnee Smollett) and his uncle George (Courtney B. Vance) on a road trip from Chicago across 1950s Jim Crow America in search of his missing father Montrose (Michael Kenneth Williams). Their search-and-rescue turns into a struggle to survive and overcome both the racist terrors of white America and monstrous creatures that could be ripped from an H.P. Lovecraft paperback.
