John Carpenter to Direct Darkchylde

John Carpenter and Sandy King’s Storm King Productions have allied with Randy and Sarah Queen’s Darkchylde Ent. to produce the film, following the release of test footage created by Richard Taylor’s Academy Award winning Weta Workshop (The Lord of the Rings, Avatar, King Kong, The Hobbit).

John Carpenter says, “Randy Queen’s hijacked angel, Ariel Chylde, is the best young female character since Laurie Strode in Halloween. Bringing Ariel and her dark mysteries to life should be quite an adventure for us all.”

Adds Queen, “I’m beyond thrilled that John Carpenter, one of our most important and legendary genre directors, and the man responsible for such landmark films as THE THING and HALLOWEEN, has come onboard with Weta Workshop to help bring the nightmarish tale of Ariel Chylde to the silver screen. As a horror fan, the thought of Carpenter and Weta together, beautiful dreamscapes, and multiple transformations makes me incredibly excited. There is a reason nearly his entire catalogue has been, or is being, remade, and it’s because Carpenter is a genius.”

Offering a stark contrast to superhero comics, Darkchylde was a breakout sensation of the late 90’s and early 2000’s, garnering immediate acclaim and an unusually large female fanbase. The property went on to outsell Spider-Man, Superman, and Batman in both domestic and foreign audiences and has been realized in toys, trading cards, apparel, lunch boxes, mini busts, and more recently a hit crossover with Top Cow and a statue from PopCultureShockToys. Fans can now read the Ariel Chylde saga online via Wowio and Darkchylde.com, and a trade paperback collecting the “Legacy” and “Redemption” series of books ships in January from Image Comics.