It was announced last summer that Mike Flanagan and Trevor Macy would be co-writing a pilot for a potential Netflix series adaptation of James Tynion IV and Werther Dell’Edera’s comic book series Something Is Killing the Children, but it looks like those plans have changed. In a new chat with The Wrap this week, Flanagan confirms the project is no more.
“With that one, we were a good ways through our process, but Netflix decided to kind of go in a different direction with that property,” Flanagan tells The Wrap. “So we’re not involved anymore. We love James [Tynion IV], we love the source material, and we wish the absolute best for whoever ends up with it, but that one we’re not gonna move forward with.”
“It’s a bummer,” Flanagan adds.
According to the site, Netflix likely still has plans to eventually bring Something Is Killing the Children to life, but it’d be a new iteration without Flanagan and Macy attached.
In Something is Killing the Children… “When the children of Archer’s Peak begin to go missing, everything seems hopeless. Most children never return, but the ones that do have terrible stories—impossible stories of terrifying creatures that live in the shadows. Their only hope of finding and eliminating the threat is the arrival of a mysterious stranger, one who believes the children and claims to see what they can see. Her name is Erica Slaughter. She kills monsters. That is all she does, and she bears the cost because it MUST be done.”
The popular series debuted in June 2019, nominated for an Eisner for Best New Series in 2020.
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