Directing legend John Carpenter has come on board to executive produce a horror anthology series for Elevation Pictures.
Created and showrun by Michael Amo (Pure, The Listener) and Will Pascoe (Orphan Black, Absentia), the new series, John Carpenter Presents, during season one will be set in the remote wilderness of Alaska. As a diverse group of characters face a chilling mix of supernatural and existential terror, the anthology series will explore the hidden fears and social anxieties of our time, according to a logline from the producers.
Carpenter’s canon includes masterpieces like 1978’s Halloween and 1982’s paranoid splatterfest The Thing as he became a master of horror and sci-fi movies. The Canadian anthology series will channel both Carpenter’s visual style and musical sensibility as the legendary director wrote the scores and soundtracks for almost all of his movies.
“We’re thrilled to launch into the television space with the master of horror, John Carpenter,” Christina Piovesan of Elevation Pictures said in a statement on Friday. “Will and Michael bring deep experience in writing and showrunning and we can’t be more excited for this creative team to bring this series to audiences.”
Amo and Pascoe will share the executive producer credits with Storm King Productions’ Carpenter and Sandy King Carpenter.
For Elevation, long a film distribution powerhouse in Canada as it releases locally a mix of art house and the multiplex fare from producers like A24 and Neon north, the deal with Carpenter marks an expansion into TV.
The Canadian distributor and producer recently debuted its documentary feature Lilith Fair: Building a Mystery at the Toronto Film Festival, ahead of a U.S. and international rollout on Hulu and Disney+.
