'Sleepy Hollow' series 'being touted, Total Recall director attached'
Published Jul 20 2012, 21:37 BST | By Greg Laing
A Sleepy Hollow television series is reportedly being touted.The Legend of Sleepy Hollow was a 19th-century Washington Irving short story which went on to inspire a 1999 Tim Burton film treatment starring Johnny Depp and Christina Ricci.
Deadline reports that Star Trek writers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, along with 20th Century Fox, are currently pitching a TV show based on the supernatural story.
The series would apparently be set in the modern day, with Ichabod Crane partnering Sleepy Hollow's female sheriff to solve mysterious happenings in the town.
Kurtzman and Orci are planning to write the script alongside the little-known Phillip Iscove, who came up with the idea.
Total Recall director Len Wiseman, who was also recently linked to movie adaptation The Darkness, is attached to direct.
Watch a clip from Wiseman's upcoming Total Recall below:
No thanks, I stick with the brilliant movie. :)
July 23rd 2012 at 2:20pm
Hmmm. That's interesting.
Show me what you got.
July 22nd 2012 at 8:29am
I get that it's the new trend to bring old stories into the modern day, and sometimes it works, but I can't help but worry that this might just feel like a generic cop series with a supernatural twist, rather than a true "Legend of Sleepy Hollow" interpretation.
Keep it set in the time period of Washington Irving's story, because the setting is all part of the appeal of the story.
July 21st 2012 at 8:39pm
how can it be based on sleepy hollow if set in moden day cant blame tv company if they turn down the idea far toooo many usa shows set in modern day do the right time period and it will stand out from the rest.
July 21st 2012 at 4:58pm
setting it modern day would ruin it!!
July 21st 2012 at 7:53am