The graphic novel series Locke & Key is getting another shot on television.

Locke & Key graphic novel

IDW Entertainment is developing the TV adaptation with Locke & Key creator Joe Hill. Hill himself is scripting the pilot for the show and will serve as an executive producer on the project. No network is attached as yet.FOX passed on a Locke & Key series in 2011 from Executive Producer/writer Josh Friedman (Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles) and EPs Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman (Fringe, Star Trek), though IGN checked out the pilot when it had a public screening at San Diego Comic-Con. Afterward, Universal started developing a movie based on the graphic novel though that film was never produced.The Locke & Key graphic novel series has sold over a million copies worldwide. The comic is about a family who come across "magic beyond belief and evils beyond redemption.""I love this story,” said Hill in a statement. “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."

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