Alan Wake, the famous Xbox game made by Remedy Games looks to have secured itself a live-action TV deal with Peter Calloway (Cloak and Dagger and Legion) signed on as showrunner and writer.

The news was exclusively revealed by Variety in conversation with Tomas Harlan, a partner for Contradiction Films who look to be working on the upcoming TV Show.

The games creator, Sam Lake, is also on board as executive producer, so no worries about the TV show not retaining the same flair as the source material.

According to Harlan, the plan is to start shopping the show around in October, but alledgedly there's already a lot of interest in the project from a lot of studis.

“‘Alan Wake’ was basically a TV series that was put into a game,” Harlan told Variety. “That was Sam’s vision. It was influenced by ‘The Twilight Zone,’ ‘Secret Window,’ Hitchcock, ‘Northern Exposure,’ a lot of U.S. television.

Keep reading for everything we know about the project so far.

So for the sake of anyone who hasn't played the Xbox 360 game Alan Wake, here's the gist of the game.

Alan Wake is very similar to TV shows in that it is effectively six episodes of a wider story, complete with plot twists and cliffhangers.

The core of the story is centred around a best-selling novelist known as Alan Wake, who predominantly writer thrillers.

Whilst on holiday with his wife in an attempt to rid himself of writer’s block, Wake's wife is taken, by some mysterious force.

What follows is Wake attempting to uncover the mystery surrounding his wife's disappearance in the small fictional town of Bright Falls, Washington.

But things start to get weird when the plot from his most recent novel — which he has no recollection of writing — starts coming to life.

In truth, you're better just playing the game because it really is like nothing else. And it's also an Xbox backwards compatible title, so you can play it on your Xbox One as well!

Although details are incredibly scarce for the time being, here's what Tomas Harlan has revealed in his conversation with Varirty.

“We plan to work closely with Sam [Lake] on our this show. Sam is a huge part of this. This is his baby.”

“Definitely what we have mapped out is a longer thing than the first game and a sequel; there is more to it,” Sam Lake told Variety.

“In many ways, we see the universe as a bigger thing. Alan Wake is a very central character, but we have other characters around him like [friend and agent Barry Wheeler] and his wife Alice and Sheriff Sarah Breaker and other characters there.

"We feel this is a big universe to develop and explore in many ways.”

According to Variety both Tomas Harlan and Sam Lake declined to talk specifics about the upcoming show’s plot or how it would fit into the existing games or the unmade sequel.

Speaking of which...

Alan Wake 2 seemed like a bit of a no-brainer. After all, why wouldn't Microsoft want a sequel to one of last gens standout games on the Xbox 360?

Unfortunately, it doesn't look promising for Alan Wake 2.

According to the developer, Remedy Entertainment, this is because Microsoft does not want to make them.

Remedy CEO Tero Virtala told GamesIndustry.biz: “Considering our history, Alan Wake was really interesting but it was a collaboration with Microsoft.

“Due to certain reasons, it never got a sequel.”

He added this was also the same fate for a potential Quantum Break 2.

Virtala said: “Quantum Break, also, we put a lot of effort into creating the world, the characters, the stories, but still it was Microsoft IP. They have decided not to take it further.

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“If we owned the IP, it’s fully in our hands to decide how we create it, how we develop, what are the creative decisions that we take?”

Who knows, maybe a successful TV series could change Microsoft's mind. In the meantime, Remedy is working on their new game, CONTROL coming in 2019.