‘Locke & Key’ TV Series In Development, Again
By Angie Han/May 9, 2016 2:30 pm EST
The Locke & Key comic book series, which ran from 2008 through 2013, follows the three Locke siblings, who return to their family estate in Massachusetts after the gruesome death of their father. Once there, they discover magical keys that grant special powers and open strange doors. Unfortunately, they’re not the only ones interested in these mysterious artifacts, as a supernatural force is also after them.
The Locke & Key pilot was shown at Comic-Con in 2011, sparking hopes that another network might scoop it up — and for a moment there, it looked like MTV might bite. But nothing came of that either, and in 2012 Universal began trying to adapt Locke & Key as a feature film trilogy. As of 2014, Albert Torres was working on the script and Kurtzman and Orci were still set to executive produce. None of them appear to be involved with the latest Locke & Key TV series attempt.
Said Hill in a statement:
I love this story. The seven years I spent working on Locke & Key was the happiest creative experience of my life and there still isn’t a day when I don’t think about those characters and miss visiting with them. The six books of the series are very like six seasons of a cable TV series and so it feels only natural to bring that world to the little screen and to see if we can’t scare the pants off viewers everywhere.
