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Watch FOX’s “Locke & Key” Pilot Directed by Mark Romanek!
The decade-long journey for Joe Hill‘s “Locke & Key” comes to an end when the Netflix adaptation hits the streaming service next month.
Before it landed at the most powerful platform, the adaptation would change hands several times, beginning with plans for feature film adaptation at Dimension Films.
Once its exit from the studio, the creepy and magical genre blender would make its way to FOX, who would give the series a commitment with DreamWorks TV and exec producers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci pushing the project into the pilot phase.
The great Mark Romanek, who would turn back to directing music videos, would bring the graphic novel to life and tell the story of a family who lives in a mysterious New England mansion where a slew of magical keys are discovered.
Wiki recalls the casting, in which Miranda Otto played Nina Locke, Sarah Bolger was Kinsey Locke and Nick Stahl co-starred as Duncan Locke. Skylar Gaertner played 6-year old Bode, and Harrison Thomas played a teenager possessed by an evil spirit. Actor and singer Jesse McCartney appeared as Ty Locke, the series’ male lead, and Ksenia Solo was cast as Dodge.
FOX would eventually pass on the series with the pilot screening at the 2011 San Diego Comic-Con in an attempt to drum up renewed interest. MTV nearly picked it up and Hulu would also eventually pass on the series. Thankfully, Netflix has a Scrooge McDuck-sized vault filled with money and is unlocking all of our dreams on Feb. 7.
However, to tide you over, the Holy Grail has made its way online – the long sought after 2011 Mark Romanek-directed FOX pilot for “Locke & Key”! (Thanks to Bloody reader ‘John Francis G.’ for sending the link on over.)
Click below to watch and drop your thoughts underneath…
Best known to horror fans for playing Rupert Giles in 121 episodes of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” actor Anthony Head (aka Anthony Stewart Head) has passed away at 72 years old.
Daughters Emily and Daisy Head said in a statement to the BBC that their father “passed away peacefully of complications due to pneumonia, surrounded by his family.”
Their statement continues, “It has been, and forever will be, an honour and a privilege to be his daughters, and to have witnessed firsthand the impact both he and his work have had on so many. We know how dearly he will be missed by friends, colleagues, and fans of the shows he was in — he loved his job very much, and he always considered himself incredibly lucky, to have been able to work alongside such exceptionally talented people, in such wonderful productions, across a career that spanned several decades.”
Anthony Head more recently played Rupert Mannion in 18 episodes of “Ted Lasso,” with the English actor’s film and television credits dating back to 1978. On the horror front, Anthony Head starred in Darren Bousman’s Repo! The Genetic Opera, as well as 2011’s Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, Let the Wrong One In, “Warehouse 13,” and “The Canterville Ghost.”
Also of note here in the world of horror, Anthony Head once played Dr. Frank-N-Furter in a London stage production of The Rocky Horror Picture Show back in the 1990s.
Outside the horror world, Anthony Head’s film and television credits well exceed 100 different productions and include “Highlander,” “NYPD Blue,” “Silent Witness,” “Doctor Who,” And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself, “Little Britain,” The Magic Door, “Sensitive Skin,” Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, “Free Agents,” The Iron Lady, Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters, “You, Me & Them,” “Dominion,” A Street Cat Named Bob, and Batman: Gotham by Gaslight.
“Buffy” actor James Marsters writes on Instagram, “There’s a hole in the World. Anthony Head has passed on from us. He was an unflaggingly kind and steady presence on the set of Buffy, and the best actor in the cast. He was the best of us. I was lucky to have known, and learned from him. He left the world a better place for his presence. Thank you Tony for all you gave.”
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