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Cast for Netflix’s “Locke & Key” Adaptation Includes ‘IT’ Star Jackson Robert Scott
We learned earlier this year that Hulu would *not* be ordering “Locke & Key” to series, despite IT director Andy Muschietti having directed the project’s pilot episode. But then, a total miracle happened. Netflix picked up the series for themselves, with the streaming service ordering up ten episodes back in July. Today brings some casting news.
Deadline reports that Jackson Robert Scott (IT) has been cast to play Bode Locke, starring alongside Connor Jessup (American Crime) and Emilia Jones (Utopia) as Tyler and Kinsey Locke. It’s interesting to note that Jackson Robert Scott also played Bode in Muschietti’s “Locke & Key” pilot for Hulu, but the other two roles have been recast.
Netflix is not picking up the already-made pilot, penned by Joe Hill and directed by Muschietti, and will instead be starting fresh from the ground up with their series.
The Netflix series was created by Hill and developed by Carlton Cuse, Aron Eli Coleite and Meredith Averill. The new first episode will be written by Hill and Coleite. Cuse and Averill will serve as showrunners.
An adaptation of Joe Hill’s comic series, “Locke & Key” is a horror/fantasy series that revolves around three siblings who, after the gruesome murder of their father, move to their ancestral home in Massachusetts only to find the house has magical keys that give them a vast array of powers and abilities. Little do they know, a devious demon also wants the keys, and will stop at nothing to attain them.
Andy Muschietti and Barbara Muschietti remain on board as exec producers.
Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson is reteaming with Starz on a TV series adaptation of supernatural crime graphic novel Bone Parish, Deadline reports.
Diane Ademu-John (Dune: Prophecy) and Declan de Barra (The Witcher: Blood Origin) will co-showrun the project and executive produce.
The show’s logline reads: “In the dark underworld of New Orleans, the Winters family builds an empire around a powerful new drug—crafted from the ashes of the dead—that grants users vivid, haunting visions of the past. But as demand surges, rival factions, deadly secrets, and supernatural forces close in, pulling them deeper into a violent and inescapable nightmare of crime, horror, and family legacy.”
The graphic novel by writer Cullen Bunn (The Empty Man) and artist Jonas Scharf was published by BOOM! Studios; the publisher’s Stephen Christy and Mette Norkjaer will executive produce.
“I’ve always been drawn to stories that break the mold, and Bone Parish does exactly that. It takes crime, family, and power, and mixes it with something dark and supernatural, in a way that feels fresh. Exploring what happens when the world of the living gets mixed up with the world of the dead, this story has incredible depth, and we’re building a series that’s going to keep audiences locked in from the first episode,” Jackson said in a statement.
“We love going on new journeys with Curtis ‘50 Cent’ Jackson, and this one is unlike anything we’ve done before: a world steeped in horror and the supernatural, but still grounded in the family and crime storytelling our audience can’t get enough of. It’s a wild, bold swing, and exactly the kind of risk we want to be taking,” said Kathryn Busby, President, Original Programming at Starz.
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