Universal Picks up the Pieces of ‘LOCKE & KEY’

Personally, I rarely get a chance to read. I used to have the time and would like to make the time again in order to read some great books & graphic novels, it just never works out. One series I have been meaning to read is Locke & Key. The series is the brainchild of author Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez. From what I know, it tells the story of a family  coming back home in a town called Lovecraft to find out their house holds many secrets that can be unlocked with special keys. That may be a poor summary but, like I said, I haven’t read the series yet. I know that the series started to be adapted to a film format with Dimension Films only to fall through – like a lot of Dimension Film projects – and be reworked into a TV series. A pilot was shot by Mark Romanek and starred Nick Stahl. I heard nothing but good things from the few people that saw it at SDCC some years back. FOX even had a trailer for the series and it aired on television but they decided not to greenlight it. I have included the TV teaser below to give you a visual sense of Romanek’s adaptation.

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It looks like we will never see what Romanek created but news today came in exclusively from The Hollywood Reporter that Universal has optioned the Locke & Key story to a feature film.

Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci and Bobby Cohen will produce via their Universal-based K/O Paper Products banner. Ted Adams, the CEO and publisher of IDW Publishing, the company behind the comic, also will produce.

It is nice seeing an attempt to adapt this property as it is a hot one still. The series is still continuing and is still bringing new readers in (I will read it soon, I swear). Let’s hope this one comes through. Even though it sounds like this story would work better as a TV series, I know that the budget from it’s original television production was a concern to other networks when it was shopped around outside of FOX.

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