If Netflix is betting on Korean cinema and horror to please its subscribers, HBO Max intends to play on another ground by adapting a classic horror film series. The project is already in development.
Finally a series?
If successful horror series do not run the streets (let us quote Hannibalthe very good The Haunting of Hill Houseor in another register American Horror Story), series based on the big hits of horror cinema are extremely rare.
However, the genre remains popular on streaming platforms. Netflix regularly adds content to it, and recently offered series such as Krakow Monsters. But the winning cocktail remains the horror mixed in Korean cinema for the N rouge. All of us are dead Where Hellbound are proof of that.
Based on a novel by the master Stephen King
HBO Max prefers as for it to bet on another type of horror cinema since it will adapt a horror movie classic serial american. It is That (It in VO)film based on a novel by Stephen King (1986), adapted into a mini-series in 1990, then released twice, with That in 2017, then its sequel, It: Chapter 2 in 2019.
We still know very little about the project, except that it is called Welcome To Derry and that it will focus on events in the city of Derry in the 1960s, before the events of It: Chapter 1 (2017). This prequel series will return to the origins of Pennywise the clown and is announced as in development on the HBO Max platform.
At the helm, we will find Andy Muschietti, who directed the first feature films, alongside his sister Barbara Muschietti. It’s the Warner Bros studio. Television. who will be in charge of the project.
We know that the first opus represented a huge commercial success since it brought in 328 million dollars in revenue in North America. It’s the highest-grossing horror film of all time Sixth Sense by M.Night Shyamalan. In France, it achieved an excellent score with 2.2 million admissions. It’s just below L‘Exorcist, Scream 3 Where shining.
With such a score, there is no doubt that the concept will work on the side of HBO. We just have to wait for more information.
