Cinemax has optioned the rights to George R.R. Martin’s 1988 werewolf novella The Skin Trade, with the Game of Thrones creator set to serve as executive producer on a TV adaptation.
Originally published in the horror anthology Dark Visions, Skin Trade tells the story of Willie Flambeaux, a collections agent who happens to be a werewolf, and his friend, Randi Wade, a private investigator, who discover a dark secret behind a series of grisly murders in their decaying industrial city.
“I have always thought there was a TV series (or maybe a feature film) in Willie Flambeaux and Randi Wade,” Martin writes on his blog. “Those of you who know the story of Doorways, my ill-fated ABC pilot from the early 90s, may even recall that it was Skin Trade that I was actually trying to sell back in 1991, when I flew out to LA for a round of pitch meetings. So we’re a few decades late. ”
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Originally published October 12, 2015. Updated April 14, 2018.
