‘Shutter Island’ becoming an HBO TV series

HBO is getting a Shutter Island series. Interesting. I guess the SHUTTERS AREN’T CLOSED on this tale just yet?!?! HAHA. Right guys? Right? Anyone?

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Because television shows are being treated with the same artistic reverence as movies now (just look at the Sundance Film Festival screening Jane Campion‘s “Top Of The Lake,” or the upcoming Venice Film Festival unspooling “Olive Kitteridge“), big studio TV shows are desperately trying to keep up. With “Fargo” in particular showing that movie properties can become TV shows and find an audience with critics and the public, the race is on. AndParamount is going hard.

With “Narc,” “School Rock,” “The Truman Show” and “Ghost” already in various stages of small screen development, next up is Martin Scorsese‘s “Shutter Island,” which is headed to HBO. The show will be titled “Ashecliffe,” and the story begins before the events of the movie, with Dennis Lehane (who wrote the novel the movie was based on) penning the pilot script, and Scorsese to direct. It continues the director’s ongoing relationship with the network, which includes “Boardwalk Empire” (entering its final season next month), and an upcoming untitled rock ‘n roll drama.

I’m sold on giving it a try. Lehane writing the pilot script, and Scorsese directing? Works for me.