Two years ago it was announced that Mike Flanagan would be in charge of the series ‘There is something killing children’ for Netflix, but now everyone seems to have changed their plans, and after five years according to the creators of ‘Dark‘, Baran bo Odar and Jantje Friese, the studio has entrusted it to the duo, after having raised his bet for them again in an eye-catching eight-figure deal, according to Deadline, despite the failure of his big-budget mystery ‘1899’ that was suddenly cancelled.
The pair are turning their attention to the comic book adaptation, in which they team up with Boom! Studies! which also has an agreement with Netflix. With distant echoes of ‘Dark’, the comic is material that you can connect with Friese and Bo Odar. This is the full synopsis:
“When the children of Archer’s Peak begin to disappear, everything seems hopeless. Most of the 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.”
Posted by Boom! Studios and co-created by DC Comics writer James Tynion (Batman) and Werther Dell’Edera, ‘There’s Something Killing Children’ is one of the original regular series in English. most successful of the last five years, selling more than two million copies worldwide, and which has won multiple Eisner Awards, including the 2022 Eisner Award for Best Continuing Series. The new contract with the Germans replaces that of Flanagan’s Intrepid Pictures.
The director of ‘The Haunting of Hill House’ did not renew his contract with Netflix, creating a new pact with Amazon Studios, with whom he may be able to bring an adaptation of Stephen King’s ‘The Dark Tower’ to the screen. According to statements by Flanagan, the reasons for those who did not make the series would not be related to the new contract, Although seen from a distance, they could have been a trigger:
“With that project, we were on a good path through our process, but Netflix decided to go in a different direction with that property. So we are no longer involved. we love James [Tynion IV]We love the original material and we wish the best to whoever ends up with it, but we’re not moving forward with that. It’s annoying”.