![]() ![]() “It’s hard,” Cuse tells Variety, “but ultimately, I love this material so much that the desire to bring this thing to the screen and figure out how to make it work and to get this in front of audience was” still there. Cuse was partnered with co-showrunner Meredith Averill (“The Haunting of Hill House”), and had to start all over again with new scripts, a new pilot and almost entirely a new cast. Then Cuse got the news: Hulu was passing on “Locke and Key.” After an intense campaign to save the show, Netflix officially rescued it in July, but with a helluva catch: The streamer was scrapping Hulu’s version outright. ![]() Andy Muschietti, hot off his blockbuster Stephen King film “It,” had directed the “Locke and Key” pilot and seven scripts were already completed. ![]() He’d been working for nearly a year on “Locke and Key,” an adaptation of Joe Hill’s best-selling graphic novel series about the Locke children, who move into their elaborate family mansion after their father is murdered, only to discover a suite of magical keys that plunge them into a macabre supernatural battle between good and evil. ![]() In March 2018, Carlton Cuse found himself faced with a TV showrunner’s nightmare. SPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet watched “ Locke and Key,” streaming now on Netflix. ![]()
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