Remedy’s Alan Wake is to adapted in to a TV series with the games creator, Sam Lake, as an executive producer and Peter Calloway (Cloak & Dagger) onboard as showrunner and writer. The show has no home yet but has seen “initial interest from a number of studios.”
You may remember the game was structured like a television series and included live action segments. “Alan Wake’was basically a TV series that was put into a game,” Harlan told Variety. “That was Sam’s vision. It was influenced by ‘The Twilight Zone,’ ‘Secret Window,’ Hitchcock, ‘Northern Exposure,’ a lot of U.S. television. We plan to work closely with Sam on our this show. Sam is a huge part of this. This is his baby.”
Remedy had planned a sequel to the game which sold 4.5 million copies but it has never been produced, the team wouldn’t say exactly how the show would fit in with the game or the plot of the sequel.
“Definitely what we have mapped out is a longer thing than the first game and a sequel; there is more to it,” Lake said. “In many ways, we see the universe as a bigger thing. Alan Wake is a very central character, but we have other characters around him like [friend and agent Barry Wheeler] and his wife Alice and Sheriff Sarah Breaker and other characters there. We feel this is a big universe to develop and explore in many ways.”
Source: Variety
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Gotta say, I’m pretty excited about the potential here.