Netflix Greenlights Locke & Key Series Adaptation

Locke & Key is coming to the screen at last. Netflix has announced that they have ordered ten hour-long episodes of the comic book adaptation, which comic co-creator Joe Hill co-wrote along with Aron Eli Coleite. Netflix will redevelop the series, which originally filmed a pilot for Hulu, and will re-cast .

Locke & Key has had a long road to make it to the screen. Dimension Films originally bought the rights to the comic in 2008, but nothing came of that. Then FOX gave a series order to the show in 2010 and produced a pilot, which received a series order. However, the network decided not to go forward despite positive buzz about the show. Universal Pictures attempted to adapt it to a film with Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci in 2014, and finally Hulu came into play and ordered a pilot, which they passed on.

Meredith Averill will showrun the series alongside Carlton Cuse. They serve as executive producers along with David Ozer, Ted Adams, Lindsey Springer, Coleite, Andy Muschietti, Barbara Muschietti, David Alpert, and Rick Jacobs.

Locke & Key is a horror/fantasy series that revolves around three siblings who, after the gruesome murder of their father, move to their ancestral home in Massachusetts only to find the house has magical keys that give them a vast array of powers and abilities. Little do they know, a devious demon also wants the keys, and will stop at nothing to attain them.

The comic franchise was co-created by Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez, and was published by IDW. It has garnered both awards and acclaim during its ten-year run; has been translated into dozens of languages across the globe; and has sold millions of copies worldwide.