After bursting onto the original series scene with premium cable-caliber adult fare such as House of Cards and Orange Is The New Black, Netflix is entering a new area: live-action family entertainment. On the heels of picking up AwesomenessTV’s live-action comedy Richie Rich, the streaming company has acquired rights to the best-selling series of books A Series Of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket, with plans to adapt them as a live-action series.
Search is underway for a director to help re-create Snicket’s visual world on TV. Netflix is producing the project, which is being fast-tracked, with Paramount Television. Paramount was behind the 2004 movie starring Jim Carrey, which grossed $209 million worldwide.
“I can’t believe it,” Snicket said, from an undisclosed location. “After years of providing top-quality entertainment on demand, Netflix is risking its reputation and its success by associating itself with my dismaying and upsetting books.” Netflix went on to say, “Mr. Snicket’s participation will be limited, given his emotional distress, but the project has the full involvement of his legal, literary and social representative Daniel Handler, who is often mistaken for him.”
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YAASSS!!
ReplyDeleteI read all of these as a kid and loved them. The movie, while enjoyable didn't do the books justice so hopefully Netflix can now adapt them properly.
This will be interesting. Very excited actually, just because it could turn out bizarre, which I'm kinda hoping for.
ReplyDeleteOhhh, tha's exciting! I might actually want to finally return to reading the series, ha...I loved it as a kid, but I'm more of a film-person after all. And it's Netflix no less! Should be good.
ReplyDeleteI love the movie, I'm looking foward to see this show too.
ReplyDeleteOh I hope this is as good and quirky as it could be. I think Netflix is the perfect platform for this – they can afford to be a little weird and edgy since they don't have to lure in mainstream primetime viewers.
ReplyDeletethis made my day :).....thanks Nirat
ReplyDeleteHow exciting!! I always wanted a sequel to the movie, but this is even better!
ReplyDeleteYour welcome, I'm really excited for this too :)
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