Cinema Suicide

I finished the last issue of Locke & Key last week and it kicked my ass. I was under the impression that it was going to be a 6 issue series and call it quits but the final issue announces further issues coming in November of this year. So yay! I’ve been hearing rumblings about this and Joe Hill’s novel, Heart Shaped Box, being developed into movies but it turns out, according to Hills interview with Fango, that things have changed.

The Weinstein Company, he says, “got interested in LOCKE & KEY and bought it, and it was widely reported that they had bought it to adapt for a film,” he says. “But they actually purchased it for TV. The plan right now is to do an HBO kind of thing—a mature, somewhat enclosed story that would be 12 episodes, but open-ended enough that they could go back and do another season. Frank Darabont [THE MIST] is going to write the pilot and hopefully direct it, and we’ll see what happens after that.”

Righteous. I’m less and less interested in comic to movie adaptations because I don’t really feel like a feature can properly encapsulate a serialized story into a two-hour movie. Often times they truncate shit, cut important bits out or change things to suit the format. A TV show, on the other hand, is something I can get behind.  Particularly along the gritty lines of an HBO serial. Fuck yeah. As for Heart Shaped Box:

a film version of HEART-SHAPED BOX is also still in development at Warner Bros., though Neil (INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE) Jordan, who penned the adaptation, is no longer attached to direct. “My understanding is that Jordan wrote a really great script, but then he was asked to do revisions and then there was the writers’ strike,” Hill explains. “I know they’ve done another rewrite [since], and I couldn’t tell you whether it was Jordan who did it or someone else. But that one continues to be developed.”

I haven’t read the novel but once I’m through the pile of books that has been piling up for years, I intend to. My wife read it but didn’t say much about it.