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Gary Dauberman, James Wan’s Atomic Monster Tackling Live-Action ‘Gargoyles’ For Disney+ (www.hollywoodreporter.com)

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Two major names in the creature feature business, Gary Dauberman and James Wan’s Atomic Monster banner, known for their collaborations on the hit Annabelle horror movies, have teamed up to remake the 1990s cartoon as a live-action series for Disney+.

Dauberman will write, executive produce and showrun the series with Atomic Monster, the company run by Wan and Michael Clear, joining the executive producing ranks.

Dauberman wrote Annabelle, Annabelle: Creation and Annabelle Comes Homes, which were produced by Atomic Monster and are an integral part of Wan’s The Conjuring Universe, the highest-grossing horror franchise of all time. He also penned Conjuring spinoff The Nun.

The partnership has been fruitful not only because of the box office success, but also professionally, as Dauberman moved from behind the typewriter to behind the camera, making his directorial debut Annabelle Comes Home.

And the two also worked together on Swamp Thing, the short-lived series based on the DC character that streamed on the now-defunct DC Universe platform.

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[–] UrLogicFails 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm honestly pretty tired of the live-action reboot trend. It feels like Hollywood has never got over the notion that anything animated must be for kids, and adults will only watch live-action productions.

Having said that, it sounds like Dauberman has had a number of productions by Atomic Monster, so I wouldn't expect much friction between the two parties, which probably means a pretty low drama production cycle. On top of that it sounds like they are a team who is very comfortable working with the horror genre, so hopefully this bodes well for Gargoyles fans.

[–] I_am_10_squirrels 2 points 1 year ago

Hopefully it will feature Michael Dorn

[–] middlemuddle 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Adapting a Disney Afternoon fantasy/action show into live-action horror is certainly a choice. At least, I'm assuming it's horror based on the CVs of everyone involved. They're certainly talented, but I loved Gargoyles as a kid and I think I'll feel that this is a significant distortion of the original work. Still, I'm not going to actually judge it until I've seen it.

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Almost 30 years after first appearing as an animated television series, Gargoyles is taking flight once more, this time in live-action.

Two major names in the creature feature business, Gary Dauberman and James Wan’s Atomic Monster banner, known for their collaborations on the hit Annabelle horror movies, have teamed up to remake the 1990s cartoon as a live-action series for Disney+.

Once in the Big Apple, the statues awaken from a thousand-year-old spell and take on the mantle of protecting the city, becoming, as the show’s narration gravely said, “stone by day, warriors by night.”

While Disney hasn’t overtly tried to adapt the series into other formats, it did try to develop a gargoyles-in-modern-times feature in 2010 around the same time it made The Sorcerer’s Apprentice.

The partnership has been fruitful not only because of the box office success, but also professionally, as Dauberman moved from behind the typewriter to behind the camera, making his directorial debut Annabelle Comes Home.

Dauberman, repped by CAA, Industry Entertainment, and Felker Toczek, has continued to be one of the top horror talents in town, penning the two-part adaptation of Stephen King’ It.

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