Locke & Key coming to Netflix.

Locke & Key officially picked up by Netflix.

10 Episodes ordered for the hit Graphic Novel.

Locke & Key coming to Netflix.

After an 8-year long bid to bring Locke & Key into production, Netflix has ordered a 10 episode first season with each episode coming in at an hour long.

Locke & Key is the critically acclaimed and Eisner Award winning graphic novel from writer Joe Hill and Artist Gabriel Rodriguez with colors from Jay Fotos. The story centers around the Locke family who move back to their ancestral home in Massachucetts after the gruesome murer of the Locke family Patriarch. But the return to Keyhouse is not the escape that the family hoped for and with the discovery of a ghost key by the youngest of the Locke children an entire new wave of misfortune befalls the Locke family.

Locke & Key  had originally been ordered as a pilot for Fox 8 years ago, but that project never came to fuition. The Rights to Locke & Key were then bought by Universal for a feature film adaptation that never came to be.

More recently Hulu was shopping the Locke & Key property with hopes of adding it to their streaming service, but that effort fell apart 2 months ago, where Netflix stepped in and got a hold of the property. Netflix is redeveloping the show with new scripts and a new cast.

Hill serves as writer and executive producer on the show, which was developed by Carlton Cuse, Meredith Averill, and Aron Eli Coleite with Averill and Coleite joining the series since it came to Netflix. Cuse and Averill will serve as co-showrunners and executive producers. Cuse will executive produce via his Genre Arts banner. Hill and Coleite also wrote the first episode.

IDW’s David Ozer and Ted Adams will also executive produce along with Genre Arts’ Lindsey Springer, Coleite, Andy Muschietti, Barbara Muschietti, and David Alpert and Rick Jacobs of Circle of Confusion. Andy Muschietti directed the original Hulu pilot but is unable to return to direct the Netflix series due to his commitment to “IT 2.”