John Carpenter's TALES FOR A HALLOWEEN NIGHT Horror Series Is Still Alive and in Development

Earlier this year is was reported that John Carpenter’s horror series Tales For a Halloween Night had been scrapped by Syfy. The series would be an adaptation of the comic book property of the same name that Carpenter produced.

One of the things I was most excited for regarding this series was that Carpenter going to direct some episodes! So when I got word that the project was being shut down, I was pretty disappointed.

Well, it looks like the series isn’t completely dead after all! During a recent interview with CB, Carpenter was asked if the development of the show was completely dead and he responded with, "Oh no, it's alive at Paramount now."

That’s great news! When asked if still was looking at writing, directing, and producing episodes of the series, Carpenter said, "We'll see. We're just getting cranked up."

Here’s the official synopsis::

From John Carpenter, the man who brought you the cult classic horror film Halloween and all of the scares beyond comes the ultimate graphic novel anthology of tales to warm your toes by on a dark and stormy October night! Carpenter brings together storytellers from the worlds of movies, novels and comics for a collection of tales featuring graveyards, sunken ships, creepy crawlers and ghosts to haunt your dreams at night!

The whole reason the project fell apart at Syfy in the first place was because the creative team didn’t like the direction that Syfy wanted to take the series. Storm King Production’s Sandy King previously explained:

"We had one [project] where SYFY wanted Tales for a Halloween Night but it quickly became evident that they just wanted the title. And I really saw a disaster on the horizon. So I went, 'No, no, no. This is not a good idea.' It was a greenlit series but if it's not gonna be something cool for the fans and for the eventual audience, then I don't think it's a good idea to do it.

"And that's something you really have to be willing to walk away from. When you look at it and go, 'Nah, no, it's not good enough.' There are times you just have to sit there and go, 'Seriously, why did you think that was a good idea?' And if you're me, you have to be prepared for everybody to be pissed off about it."

It was confirmed at the time that the project was dead and there was no indication that it would be reworked, so I’m happy that’s not the case and that the series is moving forward!

Source: CB

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