'Lost' exec Carlton Cuse on 'Psycho' TV prequel: 'Mrs Bates is hot'
Published Jul 30 2012, 15:21 BST | By Emma Dibdin
Carlton Cuse has discussed his upcoming series Bates Motel.The former Lost producer is currently in the process of casting the ten-episode series, which will be a prequel to the 1960 Hitchcock classic Psycho.
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Cuse revealed to TV Guide that the series finds Norman Bates - played by Anthony Perkins in the original - as a 16-year-old already showing some personality peculiarities.
"His mother, Norma, is in her early 40s and very hot," he explained. "We didn't get to know her in the movie because she was a corpse... spoiler alert!
"We're reinterpreting the mythology a bit, and we might discover that Norman has a sibling."
The show's pilot will reportedly see the Bates family purchasing the run-down motel that will become the Bates Motel.
Cuse's fellow Lost producer Damon Lindelof has recently signed on to produce a new HBO series based on Tom Perotta's acclaimed novel The Leftovers.
Watch the famous shower scene from Hitchcock's Psycho below:
There was a 'Bates Motel' series on in the 90s early i think.... i watched it but it wasn't well tied to the films very well... This could be really good if done well...
July 31st 2012 at 5:30am
here we go again, the remake was pants.
now they want to tell the story before it all happened, yawn.
will it be called child pyscho
July 30th 2012 at 5:19pm
It is called Bates Motel, as stated in the article above.
July 30th 2012 at 6:28pm(+3 likes)
Didn't they try and do this before and it failed miserably!
July 30th 2012 at 4:09pm