With all of the feature films we've seen adapted into TV series it should come as no surprise that long-shelved projects are being revived on the small screen. Before Guillermo Del Toro and screenwriter Travis Beacham got together for Pacific Rim they were looking to collaborate on A Killing on Carnival Row, a fantasy detective story set in a world where people live alongside other creatures. It never got off the ground and directors like Tarsem Singh and Neil Jordan tried to make it happen, but now Del Toro is back on board and taking it to Amazon.
According to THR, Legendary and Del Toro are developing an original series with Amazon titled Carnival Row that will use elements from the film. Del Toro will direct the pilot and co-write the script with Beacham and Rene Echevarria. When that's finished, possibly in the spring, Del Toro will go full swing into his Pacific Rim sequel. The story, which sounds creepy and weird and perfectly Del Toro, takes place in a noir Victorian town where a detective tries to track a serial killer who has been murdering fairies.
The rights to the story reverted back to Beacham at one point, only to have Legendary's Thomas Tull pick it up and make the offer to Del Toro to turn it into a series...
"We tried to do it for so long as a film that the rights reverted back to Travis as a basic story. And I’ve always talked about it to anyone that would listen. We always had too many ideas to fit into the feature. We can now really focus on the world and the politics of what it is to be a magical being in Victorian steampunk atmosphere where you are seen as a lesser being."
Hopefully this turns out better than Del Toro's other TV project, The Strain, which had an inconsistent first season and probably should have been a miniseries.
