We’ve been reporting for a while that a new take on Tales from the Crypt was imminent – without the Crypt Keeper (above) but alas, it appears to be dead and buried now.
TNT and TBS president Kevin Reilly has come out and said that something better has come along.
The series from M. Night Shyamalan was looking like it was happening but then legal issues and Ridley Scott came along and now it’s dead in the water: “That one got really caught up in a complete legal mess unfortunately with a very complicated underlying rights structure,” Reilly said of Tales From the Crypt.
“We lost so much time, so I said, ‘Look, I’m not waiting around four years for this thing’. Maybe that will come back around but in the meantime, Ridley Scott had come up, who has so much creative enthusiasm.”
On the plus side, it looks like Scott is planning on a full series and you don’t argue with that sort of talent on the small screen: “it could be a series order. When you got Ridley, there are projects he is potentially interested in getting directly involved.”
This could, it seems, include directing.
So TNT’s horror hour is currently not a thing but the sci-fi hour is. With Ridley Scott involved. So not a total loss…
Source: Deadline
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