'Locke & Key' TV series in development
Joe Hill's wildly popular Locke & Key comic book series has bounced around the developmental cage for a while, intended for a film before set for a 2011 TV series that was never picked up. Alex Kurtzman at one point was working on a trilogy, and it seems that's not happening anymore.
Now, a new attempt at a TV series has been given the green light. Hill will be writing a pilot as well as serving as executive producer with Ted Adams, David Ozer, David Alpert, and Rick Jacobs. IDW is developing this as a straight-to-series, so there's certainly confidence.
The series centers on the Locke family and Keyhouse, a New England mansion with 'fantastic doors that transform all who dare to walk through them' and 'a hate-filled and relentless creature that will not rest until it forces open the most terrible door of them all.'
Hill made this statement in a press release: I love this story. The seven years I spent working on Locke & Key was the happiest creative experience of my life and there still isn’t a day when I don’t think about those characters and miss visiting with them. The six books of the series are very like six seasons of a cable TV series and so it feels only natural to bring that world to the little screen and to see if we can’t scare the pants off viewers everywhere.
Source: Collider
