Hopefully this new adaptation of John Wyndham’s novel The Midwich Cuckoos turns out well. “Wyndham’s 1957 story centers on the sleepy English village of Midwich, where a strange sequence of events culminates in the community’s women falling pregnant with alien children with glowing eyes and otherworldly powers.” The series is being developed by Farr for the Comcast-owned European broadcaster Sky.Īs for a summary of what the source material focuses on… The news was revealed by Deadline, and it has been revealed that British writer David Farr will develop an eight-part series based on Village of the Damned and its source material titled The Midwich Cuckoos. This film was Village of the Damned, and now it appears a new interpretation of the classic story is moving forward – this time as a television series.
He similarly directed a remake of another sci-fi film that was likewise based on a written story. Interestingly, however, is that The Thing isn’t the only remake that John Carpenter directed. The film was a remake of The Thing from Another World, and more directly, the second adaptation of the novella Who Goes There?. As everyone knows, John Carpenter famously directed The Thing in 1982.
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