![]() ![]() Oh, and so is his dad – you might have heard of him, his name is Stephen King. His mother Tabitha is a novelist, as are his siblings Owen and Naomi. Hill comes from a family steeped in literature. In a way, everyone was learning what did and didn’t work so this is like the final draft.” Locke and Key is adapted from a comic book (Photo: Netflix) A lot of good people carried the flag for a while. ![]() “I’m grateful to everyone who took a stab at adapting the comic, and all the people who poured a lot of heart into the various versions. Writer Hill, though, whose 37-issue comic series with artist Rodriguez debuted in 2008, is philosophical about the two near-misses over the last decade that culminated in Netflix picking up the series. ![]()
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