Michael and Paul Clarkson (“Wheel of Time,” “The Haunting of Hill House”) have been set to write an eight-part horror series for BBC Three, Deadline reports today. It’s titled “Red Rose,” set to “explore the precarious relationship between teenagers and their online lives, the seductive power of what is not real versus what is.”
“The series follows a disparate group of teenagers, adrift in the long hot summer following GCSEs, hanging out on the Bolton moors with little sense of direction or purpose now that school is over. Rumours circulate of the Red Rose app, an urban legend that blooms on the smartphones of teenagers, encouraging them to undertake a series of challenges increasingly dangerous in its demands. On the fringes of her group of friends, Rochelle Jackson downloads the mysterious app, naively inviting darkness into her life. What she sets in motion is a series of events that take the town by storm, and bring the friends together to battle the unseen forces of a seemingly supernatural entity.”
“We’re thrilled that our first show will be with the BBC. We’ve been working in LA for a while now, so the opportunity to return to the UK for our own show is incredible. Red Rose is a love letter to our hometown and childhood,” said Michael and Paul Clarkson. “We get to explore what challenges face the bright but opportunity starved teenagers of today. Working on the Haunting of Hill House has prepared us well to undertake this genre driven challenge. We can’t think of a better home for it than the BBC.”
The series comes from The Enfield Haunting producer Eleven Film and eOne. Pictured at the top of this article is a still from The Enfield Haunting, a TV mini-series from 2015.