The acclaimed horror-fantasy comic book series Locke and Key by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez has been picked up by Universal to develop as a feature film.
After the comic had a TV pilot filmed -- which we loved -- that Fox ultimately passed on, this comes as great news to fans of the series.
Locke and Key is a story about three youths and their mother who move to an old family manor in Massachusetts after the grisly murder of their father. The Locke kids discover the house is full of magic keys that do everything from teleporting you to any door in the world to swapping your gender to turning you into a ghost. But the grounds are also prison to an evil entity that wants to use the keys to escape.
The series has developed a large, fervent fanbase with its unexpected twists, nail-biting tension, and deep mythology behind the mysterious keys.
These are all elements that Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, famous for writing J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek, Transformers, and the TV show Fringe, have been trying to put on screen since their acquisition of the screen rights in 2010. After their attempt to turn it into a TV show didn’t pan out, a movie was the next option, which now looks like it will become a reality.
The series won Hill, son of Stephen King and a horror novelist himself, a Best Writer Eisner Award (think comic book Oscars), not to mention a multitude of other awards and nominations that he and Rodriguez have earned over the years. The Locke and Key graphic novels are no stranger to the New York Times bestseller list and are known to even reach #1.
Plus, it’s one of the most consistently well-reviewed titles at IGN Comics.
Via THR
Joshua writes for IGN. Locke and Key is his favorite ongoing comic book series, so if you want to hear every. last. detail. about the film adaption, then you’ll want to follow him on Twitter and IGN.
Source : ign[dot]com
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