No, please no

Ron Howard is having H.P. Lovecraft fight monsters, bringing The Strange Adventures of H.P. Lovecraft to the screen. Please no. Take 1d6 SAN loss. [Link]

Mega-producer Ron Howard sounds like he's realizing just how important the father of all eldritch awesomeness H.P. Lovecraft really is. But we're still suspicious of this Van Helsing-crossed-with-Shakespeare In Love film, in which Lovecraft unleashes and fights monsters.
Ron Howard revealed the first tiny details of his film to the LA Times. Howard called the whole project "challenging as it's the first time he's translated a graphic novel.

Ron Howard just doesn't seem like the right guy for this.