John Carpenter hasn’t directed a film since 2010’s “The Ward,” but the legendary horror maestro has certainly been busy. He’s been touring the world performing iconic songs from his soundtracks, given his blessing to David Gordon Green‘s brewing remake of “Halloween,” approved Robert Rodriguez‘s redo of “Escape From New York,” and is now jumping to television with a couple of projects that are sure to grab the attention of fans.
THR reports that Carpenter is going to the small screen with a new anthology series “Tales For A Halloween Night,” with SyFy snapping it up. The project will be based on Carpenter’s graphic novel series of the same name, which pulls together a variety of scary tales. Essentially, it sounds like it’ll be not unlike a more horror leaning “Black Mirror” or “The Twilight Zone.” Here’s the book synopsis:
From John Carpenter, the man who brought you the cult classic horror film Halloween and all of the scares beyond comes the ultimate graphic novel anthology of tales to warm your toes by on a dark and stormy October night! Carpenter brings together storytellers from the worlds of movies, novels and comics for a collection of tales featuring graveyards, sunken ships, creepy crawlers and ghosts to haunt your dreams at night!
Next up, Carpenter is developing “Nightside,” based on the book series by Simon R. Green. Set in London, it involves creatures of the night moving unseen by the city at large. Here’s the synopsis of the first book:
John Taylor is not a private detective per se, but he has a knack for finding lost things. That’s why he’s been hired to descend into the Nightside, an otherworldly realm in the center of London where fantasy and reality share renting space and the sun never shines.
For John Taylor, there’s no place like home…
At the moment, it doesn’t sound like Carpenter will be directing either project, but his brand does carry some weight so we’ll be keeping an eye an out.