After it was a hit at the box office in 2010, Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island is coming to TV on HBO. The series will be renamed Ashecliffe, with Scorsese (directing) and original novel author Dennis Lehane (writing) re-teaming for the pilot.
The show will look at events that took place at the Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane before Shutter Island, examining “the secrets and misdeeds perpetrated by its founders who erected the hospital in the early 20th Century and developed the methods of treatment use for the mentally ill.” Well at least that doesn’t sound creepy at all, right?
No word yet on when it will air or who will star, although it seems unlikely Leonardo DiCaprio is looking to make a move back to TV. Growing Pains was enough TV for a lifetime.
[via Deadline]
