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TV: Fox Orders ‘Locke & Key’ Pilot Episode!
After it was originally acquired by Dimension for feature film adaptation, I’ve been reading Joe Hill’s (Stephen King’s son) breathtaking and captivating “Locke & Key,” a super creepy, magical genre blender that’s now greenlit for a TV series over at Fox. From DreamWorks TV and exec producers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, the project had already been given a series commitment from Fox, but this now cements the plan to shoot a pilot. The hourlong is being adapted by scribe Josh Friedman, who created “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles” for Fox. Hill’s original “Locke and Key” graphic novel series is about brothers who live in a mysterious New England mansion where a slew of magical keys are discovered. This is huge news on the heels of AMC’s “The Walking Dead” season premiere this Sunday — maybe “Preacher” is next?
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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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