locke & key

December 5, 2019

Netflix’s Locke & Key Locks In An Airdate

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Few TV projects in 2020 have us more interested than the adaption of Locke & Key Netflix has been working on. And today Netflix revealed they plan to premiere the first episodes next February. The graphic novels by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez are considered some of the finest horror comics of the modern age, and if they adapt the story properly, the series could be just as good. The potential is there. But with it comes wariness, because it’s never a guarantee Hollywood knows what to do with something good. Another Joe Hill comic, NOS4A2, had a TV adaption last year which ran on AMC and most critics razzed. Audiences didn’t like it either and we doubt they have the next Walking Dead on their hands. The only producer Locke & Key shares with NOS4A2, though, is co-creator Hill. Carlton Cuse is executive-producing the Netflix adaption, and he made Lost….and a bunch of other stinkers, but he did make Lost. Meredith Averill (The Haunting of Hill House) and Andy

May 30, 2018

The Locke & Key TV Series May Finally Happen

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Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez’s graphic novel series Locke & Key has had a bumpy ride in Hollywood over the last decade. It was first optioned as a potential TV series by Fox in 2011 (it would’ve looked like this). Hulu announced their own version in 2015, and produced their own take on the pilot — only to drop it. Now Netflix is interested, and this time it’ll definitely happen. How do we know? Because for one thing, Netflix greenlights anything these days — and more importantly, this order is direct-to-series. There will be no pilot process — Netflix has committed itself to making this happen, whether it’s good or bad! (And they honestly don’t care either way.) Carlton Cuse (Lost and a bunch of Lost knockoffs) was attached to the 2015 Hulu version, and he’s behind this version as well — but it’s reportedly going to be different than what he worked on for Hulu. We don’t know in what way, because the Hulu pilot has never slipped out.