The creator is involved, so it ought to be good.
Plenty of things from other mediums have been getting the show adaptation treatment recent of late. But it’s really a short list of games that have translated well to, like… any other medium. It’s mostly Castlevania and… uh, the first Mortal Kombat movie? But the interesting thing here is that it’s Alan Wake getting an adaptation this time.
According to Variety, a series is in the works. Peter Calloway (Cloak and Dagger, Legion) is set to be the show’s writer and showrunner. And the character’s creator, Sam Lake, will be on board as an executive producer. There’s no studio set, though; Contradiction Films has partnered with Remedy to produce, and they plan on pitching it around once Calloway has finalized the details, sometime in October of this year.
Alan Wake was basically a TV series that was put into a game. 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 [sic] show. Sam is a huge part of this. This is his baby.
– Tomas Harlan, Contradiction Films
This one might actually work out, as the original game was incredibly similar to an episodic series to begin with. And Lake is pretty jazzed about the project, too. This is a chance to revisit the character’s origins and flesh things out a bit more.
The story of the original game is our starting point, the seed which will grow into the bigger story we’re exploring in the show. We’ll be expanding the lore of this crazy and dark universe and diving deeper into certain aspects of it than the game ever [sic] did.
– Sam Lake
Source: IGN
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