Stephen King turning "The Colorado Kid" into TV series
Thanatos
Stephen King chills tube again
'Haven' for E1 on the smallscreen
By MICHAEL SCHNEIDER
Stephen King is taking another stab at the smallscreen, signing on to
turn his novella "The Colorado Kid" into an hourlong series for indie
studio E1 Entertainment ("Hung").
Titled "Haven," the project centers on a spooky town in Maine where
cursed folk live normal lives in exile. When those curses start
returning, FBI agent Audrey Parker is brought in to keep those
supernatural forces at bay -- while trying to unravel the mysteries of
Haven.
The team who turned King's "The Dead Zone" into a series for USA
Network are at it again for "Haven": Scott Shepherd will serve as
showrunner and exec produce with Lloyd Segan and Shawn Piller.
Shepherd, Segan and Piller were all exec producers on "The Dead Zone,"
which ran for six seasons and went off the air in 2008.
Two more "Dead Zone" alums, Sam Ernst and Jim Dunn, are writing the
pilot and will also serve as exec producers. E1's John Morayniss and
Noreen Halpern are exec producers as well.
E1 has already committed to producing 13 episodes of "Haven" and is in
advanced talks with several European broadcast partners to sign on and
help finance the show.
E1 plans to bring the international co-production to next month's
Mipcom confab. After securing an international partner, the company
will turn its attention to finding U.S. and Canadian broadcasters. E1
has aggressively pursued international co-productions, setting up
series such as "Copper" for ABC and Canwest and "The Bridge" for CBS
and CTV.
Morayniss said production on "Haven" will commence some time in the
next six months, after partners are secured and casting is finalized.
"The Colorado Kid" was first published in 2005. Adaptation was
initially developed for ABC for the 2008-09 TV season.
King has a long history of seeing his works translated for television
-- most recently, the Syfy longform "Children of the Corn," which was
telecast this past weekend.
King was also behind ABC's 2003-04 TV series "Stephen King's Kingdom
Hospital," which was actually based on a Danish miniseries. Other
recent King adaptations include ABC's telepic "Stephen King's
Desperation" and TNT's mini "Stephen King's Salem's Lot."
Darren Delgado
> http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118009301.html?categoryid=14&cs=1
>
> Stephen King chills tube again
> 'Haven' for E1 on the smallscreen
> By MICHAEL SCHNEIDER
>
> Stephen King is taking another stab at the smallscreen, signing on to
> turn his novella "The Colorado Kid" into an hourlong series for indie
> studio E1 Entertainment ("Hung").
>
> Titled "Haven," the project centers on a spooky town in Maine where
> cursed folk live normal lives in exile. When those curses start
> returning, FBI agent Audrey Parker is brought in to keep those
> supernatural forces at bay -- while trying to unravel the mysteries of
> Haven.
Did I miss something? What does that have to do with The Colorado
Kid? There wasn't anything supernatural in that book (and not much of
a story in it either).
Bev Vincent
"Darren Delgado" <darren...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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There *might* have been something supernatural in the story -- it was an
unexplained mystery. I suspect they'll use the CK story as the launching
point and then run off in an X-Files/Fringe directions from that point
onward.
--
Bev Vincent
www.BevVincent.com
Marco (was: Cuthbert Allgood)
> Stephen King is taking another stab at the smallscreen, signing on to
> turn his novella "The Colorado Kid" into an hourlong series for indie
> studio E1 Entertainment ("Hung").
> Titled "Haven," the project centers on a spooky town in Maine where
> cursed folk live normal lives in exile. When those curses start
> returning, FBI agent Audrey Parker is brought in to keep those
> supernatural forces at bay -- while trying to unravel the mysteries of
> Haven.
...and that has to do what exactly with The Colorado Kid?