IDW Publishing announced that the first teaser trailer for Season 2 of Netflix's Locke & Key is on its way.A new promo features a key being forged from flames and promises that the teaser trailer arrives Sept. 14.
Based on the IDW comic book series by Joe Hill and Gabriel RodrÃguez, Locke & Key follows three siblings who move into their ancestral family home, where they discover magical keys hidden around the house. Season 1 of the Netflix adaptation premiered in February 2020 and a second season was quickly announced.
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"In 2008 I read the comic and loved it," co-showrunner Carlton Cuse explained after the Season 1 premiere. "I inquired about its availability but it had been optioned by other people. Then in 2016, very fortuitously, I was having a meeting with my agent about another project. He said he was going to meet IDW about Locke & Key and I was like 'is that available?' The rights had reverted back to [Joe Hill] and [Gabriel Rodriguez] and I was like 'oh my god I'd really like to do that.'"
By December, Locke & Key had been greenlit for Season 3.
"Carlton and [co-showrunner Meredith Averill] have built an incredible world in Locke & Key, and we're excited to have the Lockes return for more in the third season," Netflix Vice President of Overall Deals Brian Wright said when Season 3 was announced. "I'm delighted to expand our creative partnership with Meredith Averill, a talented creator with a keen eye for best-in-class horror and supernatural storytelling."
In July 2020, Hill weighed in on the Netflix adaptation and explained why it shifted away from the horror of the source material. "I think that Locke & Key, the comic book, was always like 'Harry Potter gone bad.' It was always a little bit like R-rated Harry Potter. Scarier. More horror. It was less 'Harry Potter,' more 'Horror Potter,'" he said. "And I think that what he realized was there were the elements of this terrific YA fantasy thing there and that the solution to the problem was to lean into that. So the earlier versions of Locke & Key were two parts horror and two parts fantasy. And the Netflix version is one part horror, three parts fantasy, and that seems to be the right chemical mix for TV."
Locke & Key Season 2 arrives on Netflix this October.
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