Steven Spielberg currently has a lot of on-going projects to his name (Terra Nova, Falling Skies, to name only two), and he’s set to add another one to his list with the adaptation of Joe Hill’s Locke & Key comic book series.
Spielberg is teaming up with Fringe Consulting Producers, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, and Sarah Connor creator, Josh Friedman, to bring the spooky comic series to television.
Locke & Key focuses on the dysfunctional Locke family who keep watch over a New England mansion with doors that open to different dimensions, transforming all who enter. Oh, and there’s also a “relentless creature that will not rest until it forces open the most terrible door of them all.”
Personally, I’d open that door just to see what happens.
While I didn’t know too much about Locke & Key before this news, I’m eager to see how this high-profile team go about translating it to television. It certainly seems to have all the right ingredients for something pretty interesting. And it’s not just because the title includes the word “Locke”, or because there’s a manipulative monster who desperately wants its freedom.
With AMC’s graphic novel adaptation, The Walking Dead, looking set to best thing since iced doughnuts, Locke & Key could be one to watch. In fact, it would be silly to take our eyes off it. Whether it becomes highly serialized is something we’ll find out later down the line, but for the time-being, this is one door I’m happy to walk through!
The project will be developed by Dreamworks TV and 20th Century Fox – The Fox network currently looks like its likely home. It’s probably also worth mentioning that Joe Hill is also the son of Steven King.
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