I have been reading Joe Hills comic Locke and Key since book one, and it is the only comic that I own both in floppies (individual issues) and in hardback (every six floppies is grouped together like a chapter in the series). It is an amazing series unlike anything else I've read, and everyone should read it, comic book fan or not.
Anyway, those of us in my circle that have read Locke and Key always talk about what an amazing movie or television series it would make. And apparently someone agreed. Director Mark Romanek apparently filmed some of the television series!!! News to me. Here's the trailer below - and take it from someone who has read the book, it is VERY well done, and for the most part spoiler free.
This is awesome news! Amazing news! The best television news since The Walking Dead! It's also not happening. Why? Because it was developed for FOX, the same brilliant people who canceled Firefly after only one season, put Fringe on Friday nights in hopes of killing it off, and is basically known as the place where great things go to die. (BTW - Thanks again FOX for giving us Deadpool in the Wolverine movie and sewing the Merc with the Mouth's mouth shut. Nothing like making sure the funniest character in the Marvel U can't talk!)
So basically a bummer, although the above trailer is so well done I'm hoping someone else picks it up or it goes straight to DVD. Seriously, it would make an amazing series, guaranteed six seasons with each season having one big story arc and a bunch of little story arc's along the way, kind of like Dexter.
AMC, what was your highest rated show last year? It wasn't Mad Men you say? It was The Walking Dead? The show based on the comic? Well...if you're looking for another...I might know a good place to start...
And in other news - Abercrombie is paying the cast of the Jersey Shore NOT to wear its close next season...because that show is still on the air.
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