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TV: NBC Gets ‘Grimm’ With ‘Buffy’ and ‘Angel’ Producers

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Seriously, is it me or is horror exploding on TV? One of my biggest gripes with horror movies is that they don’t spend enough time developing characters — before they’re “offed”. The more you care, the most of an impact it has. This is why I LOVE the idea of horror-themed TV, a place with infinite possibilities when it comes to character development (which is why I was slightly disappointed with the first season of “The Walking Dead”).

NBC is getting into the mix as they’ve picked up another pilot mixing fantasy with a crime drama: The network has greenlit “Grimm,” described as a “dark but fantastical cop drama about a world in which characters inspired by Grimm’s Fairy Tales exist.

EW reports that the project is from Jim Kouf (“Angel”) and David Greenwalt (“Buffy the Vampire Slayer”), with executive producers Sean Hayes and Todd Milliner. The order comes on top of “Battlestar” guru Ron Moore’s “17th Precinct,” also at NBC, about cops working a town where people have magical powers. Being that it’s NBC, don’t expect any gore like in “True Blood,” but maybe there’s something compelling to be told?

Either way, I’d like to think Adam Green (Hatchet, Frozen) is reading this going, “what the F*CK?” Read on to watch his short film “Fairy Tale Police.” Hmmmmmmm.

Horror movie fanatic who co-founded Bloody Disgusting in 2001. Producer on Southbound, V/H/S/2/3/94, SiREN, Under the Bed, and A Horrible Way to Die. Chicago-based. Horror, pizza and basketball connoisseur. Taco Bell daily. Franchise favs: Hellraiser, Child's Play, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween, Scream and Friday the 13th. Horror 365 days a year.

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‘Clue’ – Sony Picks Up Film & Television Rights to the Murder-Mystery Board Game

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The classic murder-mystery game Clue is headed back to screens both big and small, with Variety reporting this week that Sony has acquired the film and television rights.

Variety reports, “Hasbro Entertainment has closed a deal with Sony‘s TriStar Pictures and Sony Pictures Television for the film and TV rights for the beloved board game.”

“Sony is the perfect partner to adapt a property as culturally impactful and mystery-defining as ‘Clue,’” said Hasbro Heads of Film and TV Zev Foreman and Gabriel Marano. “Nicole Brown, Katherine Pope, and their teams are tremendous creative collaborators and ideal partners to help us figure out after 75 years if it was Colonel Mustard in the conservatory with the candlestick.”

Clue was created way back in 1943 by Anthony E. Pratt, and the board game was of course notably turned into a feature film starring Tim Curry in 1985 and a mini-series in 2011.

Ryan Reynolds had more recently been attached to star in a remake for 20th Century Studios, while Fox Entertainment had been developing an animated series a few years back.

You can learn all about the making of the original Clue film in Who Done It: The Clue Documentary, which is now streaming on the Bloody Disgusting-powered SCREAMBOX!

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