After the TV pilot for Joe Hill’s horror comic Locke & Key wasn’t picked up by Fox, the live-action future of the project seemed dead. But a report on i09, and a series of recent tweets by Hill and writer Roberto Orci (Star Trek), seem to point towards new life for the franchise on the big screen. Orci seemingly confirmed these rumors with this tweet:
“@corpse_bride17: Oh PLEASE say that the rumor about you and Kurtzman making #LockeAndKey a film trilogy is true. PLEASE PLEASE!” true
Later, Hill, who is the son of Stephen King, added more fuel to the speculation fire when he tweeted this:
I don't think I can say anything about a possible LOCKE & KEY trilogy, but I think it's ok to retweet links: io9.com/5957862/robert…
Obviously nothing is confirmed yet, but these cryptic tweets seem to point to a potential Locke & Key movie trilogy being developed at an unknown studio. The comic series, which was published by IDW, has won numerous awards and became a cult hit of sorts since its debut in 2008, so there is an underground fanbase looking for this. For those of you who want to learn more about the book, here is IDW's synopsis of the original comic series:
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Hopefully we'll learn more about the fate of Locke & Key in the coming months.
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[via io9, Coming Soon]
