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Neil Patrick Harris co-hosted Live! With Kelly this week and spilled some Lemony Snicket news.
He has been in Vancouver this summer, playing the lead in Netflix’s adaptation of Daniel Handler’s books, A Series of Unfortunate Events.
He tells Kelly that the new adaptation will be “super dark … it is a much darker take on the material than has been seen before” but also “fun” and “exciting.”
The older version he references is the 2004 film, starring Jim Carrey, which compressed the 13 book series into a single movie [CORRECTION: As pointed out in the comments, Harris exaggerated, the movie was actually based on just 2 titles from the series]. Harris reports that the Netflix series will treat each book in 2 episodes, so the show will be much more expansive. The cast and crew have finished filming the first four titles.
The plan is to create what is called a “four-quadrant show,” one that appeals to a range of audience demographics including kids, teens, 20-somethings, and adults.
He also says the series is Netflix’s most expensive production to date.
Barry Sonnenfeld (Men in Black) is the executive producer and directs half of the episodes.
There is no trailer yet and Harris declined to say much more, but Flickering Myth has some more details, including photos of Harris in costume.
The series is expected to begin on Jan. 10, 2017.
September 19th, 2016 at 5:22 pm
… so Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events film was only the first 3 books, not all 13 compressed into one. Regardless, I am super excited about this project :)