As I talked about a couple of months ago, I’ve been writing here and there for almost a decade on the push to bring Locke & Key to TV as the comic from Joe Hill has a lot of fans and has been seen as an ideal property for the medium. Things got underway again back in 2016 with another push but now it looks like after Hulu passed on it a couple of months ago Netflix is in final negotiations for a series order for it. They passed on what Hulu had created themselves in favor of acquiring the property and that deal has now been completed. According to Deadline, the series is being redeveloped with the scripts that they have and will be recasting as well.
Original creator Joe Hill remains on the creative side along with Carlton Cuse and they’ll be joined by Aron Eli Coleite and Meredith Averill in going forward. Cuse and Averill will serve as the showrunners for it. There’s a good sense that they’re viewing this as a spiritual successor of sorts to Stranger Things in my viewing and wanting a greater stake in the IP makes that clearer.
Check out the trailer below for the pilot that was produced in 2011.
Plot concept: Locke & Key tells the story of Nina Locke and her three children, Tyler, Kinsey, and Bode, who survive an unspeakable horror and attempt to rebuild their lives at Keyhouse, their family home in Lovecraft, Massachusetts. It is a mysterious New England mansion, with fantastic and transformative keys hidden inside its walls that are also being sought by a hate-filled and relentless creature with ties to the Locke family’s past who will stop at nothing to accomplish his sinister goals.
