Author/comic book writer Joe Hill talks about his working relationship with Scott Derrickson and their failed LockeAndKey pilot for Hulu.
Author and comic book writer Joe Hill dishes on Scott Derrickson's failed Hulu adaptation of Locke & Key. Written by Hill and published by IDW, Locke & Key was released in 2008 and concluded its thirty-seven issue run in 2013. The series was adapted into a Netflix series in 2020 and starred Emilia Jones, Connor Jessup, Jackson Robert Scott, Darby Stanchfield, Aaron Ashmore, and Laysla De Oliveira.
SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY IDW made several attempts to adapt Locke & Key for television prior to the Netflix series in 2020. In 2011 a television pilot was produced by Dreamworks TV and distributed by 20th Century Fox Television. The pilot debuted at the 2011 San Diego Comic-Con International and was received positively by attendees. Despite this, Fox decided against green lighting the series allegedly due to its dark content.
I became friends with Scott when he was attached to develop Locke and Key as a TV show for Hulu. Locke and Key went through several phases of development, for a while it was with Fox and later was with Hulu, before it wound up at Netflix, and Scott was intimately involved in the development of the Hulu version, and would have directed it if not for a conflict with other projects. The Black Phone, in a lot of ways, was our makeup call and it was just such a blast.
It seems that Derrickson was far more involved with Hulu's Locke & Key pilot than initially suggested. It raises the question of how different the pilot would have been had Derrickson remained involved.
With Netflix no longer producing future seasons of Locke & Key, there may be the possibility of Hill and Derrickson reuniting to bring forth their collective vision of the series. However, this would most definitely be more of a long-term production given that Locke & Key season 3 was only released earlier this month, and it is unlikely that a fourth adaptation of the series would be launched this soon by Netflix or any other streaming services/studios.
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