Clive Barker’s Weaveworld Ready to Spin for The CW
Steve Barton
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The small screen has become home to many different types of unimaginable horrors. Ten years ago you could barely get away with anything on television, but the landscape has become wonderfully bloody, thereby paving the way for the likes of Clive Barker.
According to Deadline, The CW is developing “Weaveworld,” a drama series based on the horror/fantasy novel of the same name by Barker. The genre writer-filmmaker is set to executive produce the project, written/executive produced by Jack Kenny (“Warehouse 13”).
The show gives a contemporary makeover to the premise of the novel, which was published in 1987. In the TV adaptation, an app designer teams up with a young pastry chef who has just discovered that she is destined to be guardian of a mythological realm that can be accessed through a portal in an old Savannah mansion. Together they fight an epic battle with evil forces who are vying for control of the magical world. Angela Mancuso also executive produces. CBS TV Studios is the studio.
For decades, Weaveworld had been considered too hard to adapt for TV because of its scope and settings that would require extensive use of special effects. That is something that the current technology can accomplish on a TV budget as proven by shows like ABC’s “Once Upon a Time,” The CW’s “Arrow” and “The Flash,” and Fox’s “Gotham.” There had been multiple attempts to adapt Weaveworld as a miniseries in the past two decades, including by Showtime.
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