The show is more a watered-down, much blander version of the comic than a satisfying page-to-screen transition. Hill even won the Eisner Award - the comics industry’s equivalent of an Oscar - in 2012 for his writing on the series.īut where the Locke & Key comics gained a reputation for its beauty and complexity, the show, co-created by veteran screenwriters and producers Carlton Cuse ( Lost) and Meredith Averill ( Haunting of Hill House), offers little of either.
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The series was especially praised for its emphasis on human drama, and the fact that the family dynamics drive the plot as much as its supernatural horror. Written by horror novelist Joe Hill, son of Stephen King, and drawn by artist Gabriel Rodriguez, Locke & Key ran for five years (2008–2013) before reaching its conclusion. Locke & Key also fits that description perfectly - but many significant differences exist between the Netflix adaption and the comic it’s based on. The show’s 10-episode first season was released Friday on Netflix, and it’s tailor-made to please fans of other Netflix series like 2018’s Haunting of Hill House and the popular Series of Unfortunate Events - both of which mixed horror-fantasy with a story about dysfunctional siblings uniting to solve a family mystery in a setting with gothic Victorian overtones. But at last, the long, long-anticipated adaptation of the cult comic has finally premiered. They exec produce Season 3 alongside John Weber for Take 5, Frank Siracusa of Whizbang Films, Kevin Lafferty, Joe Hill, Ted Adams, Chris Ryall and Lydia Antonini for IDW, and Andy Muschietti, Barbara Muschietti, David Alpert and Rick Jacobs for Circle of Confusion.Locke & Key has had an unusually convoluted road to the screen, with a decade of production twists and no fewer than two previous pilots filmed and discarded.
Locke and Key‘s Season 3 principal cast includes Darby Stanchfield, Connor Jessup, Emilia Jones, Jackson Robert Scott, Brendan Hines, Sherri Saum, Kevin Durand and Coby Bird.Ĭuse and Averill serve as co-showrunners on the show, which comes from IDW Entertainment. As the Locke children explore the different keys and their unique powers, a mysterious demon awakens - and will stop at nothing to steal them.
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The three siblings and their mother move into their ancestral home, Keyhouse, which they discover is full of magical keys that may be connected to their father’s death. The coming-of-age supernatural drama follows the Locke siblings after their father is murdered under mysterious circumstances. The Season 3 order was revealed in December of that year, with the two seasons filming back-to-back in Toronto. Its Season 2 renewal was announced in March 2020. We’re keeping the magical keys, though, for our own personal use.”īesides jokingly revealing themselves as the real Keepers of the Keys, Cuse and Averill are currently wrapping post-production on the final eight episodes, which are yet to be scheduled by Netflix but are expected to be released later this year. “As storytellers, we are grateful that we had the opportunity to tell our version of Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez’s incredible story exactly the way we wanted. “Once we began working on the series, we felt three seasons was the ideal length to bring the story of the Locke family and their Keyhouse adventures to a satisfying conclusion,” Cuse and Averill said in a statement. London Film Festival Review: Nora Twomey's 'My Father's Dragon'
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