Best known for creating the Halloween franchise, director John Carpenter is a name revered in the horror community, and he may soon bring one of his works to the small screen in the form of a Prince of Darkness television series for the horror-centric streaming service Shudder.
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“We’re talking about doing a theme,” said Carpenter in an interview with Consequence of Sound, “And maybe doing a show for them. What do you think about Prince of Darkness as a TV show?”
However, when pressed for more details, Carpenter merely replied that he wouldn’t reveal more than he already had. Written and directed by Carpenter, Prince of Darkness was the second installment in Carpenter’s self-proclaimed “Apocalypse Trilogy” of films, the first being 1982’s The Thing, and the third being 1995’s In the Mouth of Madness. The film told the story of a priest, played by Donald Pleasence, and a quantum physics professor who, with the professor’s students, deal with a cylinder containing a sentient green slime that could be the physical embodiment of the Devil.
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This isn’t the first TV adaptation of a movie that Shudder will be airing, as The Walking Dead producer Greg Nicotero will be helming a series based on the Stephen King and George A. Romero anthology film, Creepshow, for the service. As of now, the Prince of Darkness TV series has no planned release date or cast announcements.
