With a pilot produced previously and the cast from that having long departed from what was produced, Netflix is continuing to work through the recently closed deal to produce a Locke & Key series. The recasting is going well as we previously had Robert Scott from It playing Bode Locke and now the two older siblings have been set. Connor Jessup from American Crime has joined as Tyler Locke while Emilia Jones from Utopia has joined as Kinsey Locke.
The series is set for a 10pepisode order.
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.
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.
[Source: Deadline]