M. Night Shyamalan’s ‘Tales From The Crypt’ Series Will Adapt Stories From The Comics
From 1950 to 1955, EC Comics published 27 issues ofTales from the Crypt. When a new reboot ofTales From the Cryptwas announced, the word was it’d be influenced more byWilliam GainesandAl Feldstein’s stories than the HBO anthology series that aired from 1989 to 1996. According to the man spearheading the reboot, directorM. Night Shyamalan(Split), the new series will adapt some stories from the comics.
Below, learn more about how theTales From the Cryptseries will take cues from the original comics.
Shyamalan recently toldCrave Onlinethey’ll be adapting some of the originalTales from the Cryptstories. Night and all involved also have access to using material from EC Comic’sThe Vault of Horror, but the director already has a fewTales from the Cryptfavorites in mind for the TV show:
There’s a bunch. I have a folder of my favorites, like my twenty or thirty favorites. I’m trying to remember them. I mean they’re so weird. There’s one where there’s a bewitching one, where an old lady bewitches and takes the wife, and the husband has to figure it out. He keeps the old lady in the closet but that’s really his wife now. They’ve swapped, you know? And he can’t kill this woman but she’s now a beautiful woman.
The show is a combination ofcrowd-sourced stories, original stories, and ones taken from the comics. TNT and TBS PresidentKevin Reillytold usthe episodes, unlike HBO’s, will likely be an hour in length:
I think it may even be longer than an hour. There’s going to be a half-hour anthology and then a one-hour original show with some shorts in between. So it’s part of a whole block. The original half-hour, sort of slightly comedic, kind of twisted [story] that Night himself is going to direct will be a part of it every week. Then we’re going to have rotating original one-hours. Then we’ve got shorts that’ll be part of it too.
Shyamalan’s hope is that some of theseTales from the Cryptepisodes will star some familiar faces. The HBO show featured appearances fromTom Hanks,Kirk Douglas,Patricia Arquette,Steve Buscemi, and other big names. That’s a tradition Night wants to keep going; he saidMichael Cerais an actor he’d like to see in the reboot. Shyamalan will direct some episodes, but like the HBO show, hopefully he can help get some other star directorsto bring some of EC Comics' stories to life.
