Late last year, we brought you news that Universal Pictures were rumoured to be looking at adapting Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez’s graphic novel series LOCKE & KEY. The project was recently turned into a pilot TV episode, directed by NEVER LET ME GO’s Mark Romenek, but the Fox network didn’t see the potential despite garnering great reviews and having the likes of Steven Spielberg, Robert Orci and Alex Kurtzman on-board as writers and producers, and Fox subsequently passed on a series.
We now have word Universal will indeed bring LOCKE & KEY to the big-screen with the supernatural tales set in the New England mansion of Keyhouse and the Locke family who are tasked as the caretakers of the building which holds many secrets, with the keys opening doors to other realms and their deadly creatures.
Orci and Kurtzman again produce alongside Bobby Cohen and Ted Adams. Could Romenek be tempted to make a return to direct? We’ll keep you up to date as the project develops.
Source: THR
