Guillermo del Toro is returning to A Killing on Carnival Row as the long-in-the-works fantasy project is now in development as a television series to be called “Carnival Row,” says THR.
Legendary acquired the script this past year for del Toro, and will develop “Carnival Row” with Amazon Studios.
The story is set in a noir, Victorian-tinged city where humans, fairies and other creatures co-exist. The original script told of a detective investigating a serial killer who is preying on mystical creatures, only to find that he has become the prime suspect in the murders.
Del Toro will co-write a pilot version of the feature script with Travis Beacham (who wrote the script for del Toro’s Pacific Rim) and Rene Echevarria.
He will direct the pilot, most likely this spring, before he begins work on his next feature film.
Del Toro and his producing partner Gary Ungar will exec produce the series, as they do with FX’s “The Strain.”
I quite enjoyed the first half of “The Strain,” until it completely fell apart by the finale. I really hope del Toro and his team learned some valuable lessons that they can bring to “Carnival Row”.