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[TV] Netflix Developing More “Hemlock Grove”
I wasn’t a huge fan of Netflix’s “Hemlock Grove,” in fact, I never finished the first season. As an obsessive completist, this is very telling. Still, the high-priced Netflix only series must have performed well enough to warrant a second season, so says THR.
The online mag conducted a lengthy interview with Netflix’s chief content officer Ted Sarandos, who speaks of potential plans for a second offering of “Hemlock Grove.”
“We’re hearing the pitches for the second season with plotlines and storylines now,” he revealed.
He also speaks on the negative reactions, especially from the genre crowd: ““Hemlock” is much more polarizing; you either love it or hate it. The crossover for the people who love the show was “American Horror Story,” not T”he Vampire Diaries.” It was incredibly popular in the Nordics because of the popularity of the Skarsgards [Bill Skarsgard stars] and in Latin America, where the horror genre is very big.
“The other thing I look at is the tween segment,” he adds. ““Hemlock Grove is horror, but it’s not really CW horror; it’s much more adult than that. So I think that we’d like to look at some series in that category.”
He nails my exact problem with the series: it’s confused. It clearly doesn’t want to be CW horror, but it also dabbles in it. And it also wants to be “adult,” but it’s not sexy nor violent enough. I’d make a plea with him that the second season needs to clearly define what it is…
Did you guys finish the first season? Thoughts?
It’s a bit of a slow news day here on the horror front, so indulge us for a minute while we cover something that’s not quite a horror project. The Grinch is one of the most iconic villains of time, however, and he was originally played by Boris Karloff, so we’re not totally out of line here…
The Hollywood Reporter lets us know this afternoon that Ron Howard and Jim Carrey are in talks to reunite for a sequel to the live action How the Grinch Stole Christmas movie!
If all the deals go through, Jim Carrey would reprise his iconic role as the live action version of the Grinch, while Ron Howard would find himself seated back in the director’s chair.
Universal and Imagine Entertainment are developing, with Brian Grazer also on board to produce.
THR notes, “The untitled sequel will have a script by Alec Berg (Barry, Silicon Valley, Curb Your Enthusiasm), Jeff Schaffer (Life, Larry and The Pursuit of Unhappiness, Dave, Curb Your Enthusiasm) and David Mandel (Veep, Curb Your Enthusiasm).”
The Dr. Seuss character was originally introduced in the 1957 children’s book How the Grinch Stole Christmas, later brought to the screen in the world of animation in the 1966 special.
Horror legend Boris Karloff voiced the Grinch in that animated classic, while Jim Carrey much later played the character in live action in Ron Howard’s 2000 movie. More recently, Benedict Cumberbatch voiced the character in the 2018 animated movie The Grinch.
David Howard Thornton even played a (more) twisted version of the Grinch in the horror movie The Mean One, a wildly unofficial adaptation of the classic Dr. Seuss tale.
Another fun horror connection? Back in 2001, makeup effects legend Rick Baker (An American Werewolf in London) won an Oscar for his work turning Jim Carrey into the Grinch!
In the 2000 live action holiday classic, “On the outskirts of Whoville lives a green, revenge-seeking Grinch who plans to ruin Christmas for all of the citizens of the town.”
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