This is something that truly gets me excited: George A. Romero's 1980s horror anthology show "Tales from the Darkside" is getting a modern revamp. There was first news about this project more than a year ago, but now it is finally getting a pilot order, according to io9. The network which is looking to revive the property is none other than The CW, which has steadily been growing its geek cred since launching "Arrow" and "The Flash."
The pilot is one of many hour-long projects in development at The CW, which is seemingly hunting for its next big hit as we speak. Pilots for Bad Robot drama "Dead People" and disaster drama "Cordon" (made by members of "The Vampire Diaries" team) are also on the table.
The remake would surely be a bid to break into the big horror anthology market currently dominated by "American Horror Story." Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci ("Star Trek: Into Darkness," "The Amazing Spider-Man 2," "Fringe" and "Sleepy Hollow"), along with writer Joe Hill (son of the legendary Stephen King and not a bad horror scribe in his own right) are currently working on the pilot episode.
That team previously worked together on "Locke and Key," an unsuccessful pilot for Fox, based on Hill's graphic novel. Hill is believed to have done most of the real work in adapting the pilot from Romero's original script(s), while Kurtzman and Orci are attached as producers only.
The original show ran for almost five years (from 1983 to 1988) and 90 episodes (including the pilot). There was also a film version produced in 1990 that was nowhere nearly as good as the show, unfortunately.
