Bad news for anyone who was looking forward to the return of Tales from the Crypt, as TNT president Kevin Reilly has announced that the network has abandoned its plans for a revival of the horror anthology series.
“That one got really caught up in a complete legal mess unfortunately with a very complicated underlying rights structure,” said Reilly. “We lost so much time, so I said, ‘Look, I’m not waiting around four years for this thing’. Maybe that will come back around but in the meantime, Ridley Scott had come up, who has so much creative enthusiasm.”
The news won’t come as a complete surprise to anyone who has been following the project’s development, as it was revealed back in December that TNT had delayed the project due to rights issues.
Tales from the Crypt was to serve as the centrepiece of a horror progamming block curated by M. Night Shyamalan, which has now taken a back seat to the sci-fi block from Ridley Scott, first announced last month. However, Reilly went on to add that a horror block may still happen at some point in the future, stating that: “I haven’t ruled it out. We don’t have a specific property today but we’re open to it.”
