There's an Alan Wake television series in development
Remedy Entertainment’s beloved supernatural horror adventure Alan Wake is being adapted for television, according to a new report by Variety.
Alan Wake, which released on Xbox 360 in 2010, follows the heavily monologued adventures of video gaming’s greatest Alan, a best-selling author who visits the sleepy town of Bright Falls, Washington, in a bid to cure his writer’s block. Dark occurrences follow, as the line between reality and Wake’s fiction begins to blur. It’s all very Stephen King meets Twin Peaks, and absolutely nails its picturesque, small-town setting, making for an incredibly atmospheric experience – even if the game bits sometimes wobble.
Notably, Alan Wake wasn’t too far removed from being a television series in its original game guise, adopting a structure that framed individual chapters into something resembling standalone TV episodes, complete with recaps and closing credits – a stylistic flourish that Remedy took to its limit in Alan Wake’s follow-up, the partially live-action Quantum Break.
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The live-action Alan Wake television series is being developed by Contraction Films and Remedy, and will be helmed by Peter Calloway, co-executive producer and writer on Legion. Remedy’s Sam Lake, who wrote the Alan Wake game, will serve as executive producer.
