The Hollywood Reporter reports Guillermo del Toro is transitioning A Killing on Carnival Row, his long in-development film project with screenwriter Travis Beacham, into a television series for Amazon Prime, now simply titled Carnival Row.
Beacham also wrote the script for del Toro’s Pacific Rim, and A Killing on Carnival Row is one of his earliest works, penned in 2005 for New Line. Legendary purchased the script and will develop it for web television with Amazon Studios.
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Del Toro and Beacham will co-write the Carnival Row series pilot, along with Rene Echevarria, co-creator of The 4400. The trio will also serve as executive producer, along with Gary Ungar, who works with del Toro on The Strain. Echevarria will take the role of showrunner.
Carnival Row is a much buzzed about script that has languished in development hell. Said to blend elements of noir and fantasy, Del Toro was originally attached to direct, but eventually departed the project, and two other directors have done the same since then. The success of The Strain motivated Legendary’s Thomas Tull to approach del Toro about adapting the film 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,” del Toro told THR. “And I’ve always talked about it to anyone that would listen.”
