Nearly three decades after it premiered, the famed 1990s animated TV series “Gargoyles” is coming back – as a live-action series.
Writer/producer Gary Dauberman (“IT,” “The Nun”) and James Wan’s Atomic Monster label, who both previously teamed on the “Annabelle” films and the short-lived “Swamp Thing” series, are behind this live-action adaptation which is being done for the Disney+ service.
Dauberman will write, executive produce and showrun the series with Atomic Monster also executive producing.
Keith David, Ed Asner and Jonathan Frakes lent their voices to the original animated series which premiered in 1994 and ran for three seasons, a total of 78 episodes and followed a clan of gargoyles as heroes transplanted from the 10th century to the modern day.
Back in the middle ages, most of the clan was killed, and the survivors were cursed to be frozen in stone until their castle reached above the clouds.
A billionaire buys the castle and has it transported to, and reconstructed atop, his New York City skyscraper – awakening the creatures from their slumber. The gargoyles must protect the city and its people from various supernatural challenges.
Disney previously tried to develop a film adaptation just over a decade ago but it failed to take off. A rumor earlier this year that Kenneth Branagh would helm a new feature take on the property was shot down by show creator Greg Weisman.
Dauberman also wrote and directed the upcoming new film adaptation of Stephen King’s “Salem’s Lot” which is complete and sitting on a shelf at Warner Bros. Pictures who’ve yet to set a new release date for it.
Source: THR
