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TV: Fox and DreamWorks Head to Alaska for ‘Howl’
Just because Twilight is a success doesn’t mean werewolves always work. It’ll be interesting to see what happens once Universal’s The Wolfman hits theaters. Will a success push us to the brink of werewolf madness? Anyways, Fox network is looking to get into the werewolf business, developing “Howl,” from DreamWorks TV. “Howl” is described as an epic family saga about warring families of werewolves in a small Alaskan town. The project is being written by Joshua Miller and M.A. Fortin. “Alaska is a place where people disappear and now you know why,” Miller said. I guess he’s never heard of “30 Days of Night”? One of the Fox network’s first series, 1987’s “Werewolf,” also revolved around the mythic creatures. More recently, CBS aired the short-lived “Wolf Lake,” while MTV is currently developing a new take on the 1980s movie “Teen Wolf.”
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New ‘Sleepy Hollow’ Movie in the Works from Director Lindsey Anderson Beer
Paramount is heading to Sleepy Hollow with a brand new feature film take on the classic Headless Horseman tale, with Lindsey Anderson Beer (Pet Sematary: Bloodlines) announced to direct the movie back in 2022. But is that project still happening, now two years later?
The Hollywood Reporter lets us know this afternoon that Paramount Pictures has renewed its first-look deal with Lindsey Anderson Beer, and one of the projects on the upcoming slate is the aforementioned Sleepy Hollow movie that was originally announced two years ago.
THR details, “Additional projects on the development slate include… Sleepy Hollow with Anderson Beer attached to write, direct, and produce alongside Todd Garner of Broken Road.”
You can learn more about the slate over on The Hollywood Reporter. It also includes a supernatural thriller titled Here Comes the Dark from the writers of Don’t Worry Darling.
The origin of all things Sleepy Hollow is of course Washington Irving’s story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” which was first published in 1819. Tim Burton adapted the tale for the big screen in 1999, that film starring Johnny Depp as main character Ichabod Crane.
More recently, the FOX series “Sleepy Hollow” was also based on Washington Irving’s tale of Crane and the Headless Horseman. The series lasted four seasons, cancelled in 2017.
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