Amazon Moving Forward with Carnival Row from Guillermo del Toro and Travis Beacham
Back in January of 2015, we got the first word that Amazon Studios was working with Legendary on “Carnival Row,” based on Travis Beacham’s 11-year-old supernatural feature spec script A Killing on Carnival Row, with quite a bit of involvement from Guillermo del Toro. Now they’ve picked up the pilot, and we have a few more details.
Per Deadline, back when Amazon acquired the project, they ordered three scripts, which were co-written by del Toro, Beacham, and veteran TV writer/producer Rene Echeverria (“4400” co-creator). Echevarria wrote the pilot script, which is going into production, and serves as showrunner. Del Toro, Beacham, and Echevarria executive produce alongside Gary Ungar.
A Killing on Carnival Row is set in the future in a city called the Burgue, which looks a lot like 18th Century London. It is inhabited by humans and other creatures, and a serial killer is on the loose.
The Amazon pilot order caps an 11-year journey for Beacham, who originally sold his feature script to New Line and Koppelson Entertainment as a spec in 2005. Del Toro and Neil Jordan flirted with the project while it was at New Line, and then, following New Line’s absorption by Warner Bros., Arnold and Anne Kopelson tried shopping it to studios with Immortals helmer Tarsem Singh attached. As mentioned above, it landed at Amazon early last year.
We should have more soon on “Carnival Row” so stay tuned!
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