ALAN WAKE TV SERIES IS ON THE WAY

Sep. 16th, 2018 06:23 am
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The intriguing, disorienting, creepy and extremely awesome videogame Alan Wake is coming to TV.

Variety reports that Legion, Cloak & Dagger and Under The Dome veteran Peter Calloway is adapting the 2010 game, written mostly by Sam Lake, into a live-action series. There’s no network attached yet but apparently there’s a lot of interest already.

The game was a noir-infused mystery that was heavily reminiscent of Twin Peaks, The X-Files and all those brilliant 90s shows that had one foot in the deeply weird. Per Variety, the game followed “fictitious best-selling author Alan Wake (Matthew Porretta) on a journey to a small town in Washington state where he hopes to rid himself of prolonged writer’s block. What follows is an increasingly surreal experience that seems to bring the plot from his last novel — which he has no memory of writing — to life.”

Lake will be involved with the series, and the plan is currently for the unmade game sequel ideas to make their way into the show. He told Variety that “The story of the original game is our starting point, the seed which will grow into the bigger story we’re exploring in the show. We’ll be expanding the lore of this crazy and dark universe and diving deeper into certain aspects of it than the game ever did….Through the years we’ve worked on multiple game concepts and stories for Alan Wake’s world that have never seen the light of day. All of this material will function as potential source material for the show.”

We’ll be keeping a close eye on this one.
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GQ on four ways Twin Peaks has impacted modern life

Aug. 2nd, 2017 06:12 pm
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After Twin Peaks snuffed it, a slew of programmes inspired by it (Wild Palms, Eerie Indiana et al) came and went, but its influence continues today. Shows set in mysterious towns, and series-long murder investigations, all owe David Lynch's drama a huge debt - and it has shaped much else besides television…

How Twin Peaks has influenced music

Sky Ferreira's "Night Time, My Time" is a quote from the film Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, but self-confessed devotee Lana Del Rey channels Lynch even further: her fascination with faded glamour and doomed love, along with her Fifties aesthetic, makes her the living personification of the show.

How Twin Peaks has influenced fashion

Twin Peaks is catnip for fashion designers. Manish Arora described his AW16 collection as "Twin Peaks on Haribo". For AW14, Kenzo collaborated with Lynch, providing mountain prints on jackets to offset the director's sounds and sets. The AW15 collection went further, inspired by the show's character Audrey Horne - "sweet but a little bit f***** up".

How Twin Peaks has influenced games

The programme has proven rich pickings for game developers. Some take their cues from the show's ambience; others are less subtle. There's Alan Wake, set in the mountain town Bright Falls, for instance, while Deadly Premonition features an FBI agent on a murder case, spooky twins, and "The Pot Lady". Sound familiar?

How Twin Peaks has influenced cinema

Barely a junket goes by without some filmmaker paying homage to David Lynch. Some films, however, wear their reverence more heavily than others. Twin Peaks' hues, tones, moods and reality-blurring can be felt in the likes of Donnie Darko, Under The Skin, starring Scarlett Johansson, and Ryan Gosling's Lost River.
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