Gary Dauberman, James Wan’s Atomic Monster Tackling Dwell-Motion ‘Gargoyles’ for Disney+ (Unique)

Nearly 30 years after first showing as an animated tv collection, Gargoyles is retreating as soon as extra, this time in live-action.

Two main names within the creature function enterprise, Gary Dauberman and James Wan’s Atomic Monster banner, recognized for his or her collaborations on the hit Annabelle horror motion pictures, have teamed as much as remake the Nineteen Nineties cartoon as a live-action collection for Disney+.

Dauberman will write, government produce and showrun the collection with Atomic Monster, the corporate run by Wan and Michael Clear, becoming a member of the chief producing ranks. The mission is described as being in early improvement at Disney Branded Tv.

Gargoyles was made by Walt Disney Tv Animation and aired three seasons, from 1994 to 1997. The premise concerned gargoyle statues moved from a fort in Scotland to modern-day New York. As soon as within the Huge Apple, the statues awaken from a thousand-year-old spell and tackle the mantle of defending the town, changing into, because the present’s narration gravely stated, “stone by day, warriors by night time.”

The collection, created by Greg Weisman, got here throughout a time of innovation in collection animation, with Gargoyles using a wave of exhibits with extra complicated storylines and darker tones that additionally included Batman: The Animated Collection and X-Males. As with these exhibits, Gargoyles burrowed into the consciousness of a era of TV watchers who’ve given it cult standing.

Whereas Disney hasn’t overtly tried to adapt the collection into different codecs, it did attempt to develop a gargoyles-in-modern-times function in 2010 across the similar time it made The Sorcerer’s Apprentice. The latter disillusioned on the field workplace, and the mission stalled out not too lengthy afterwards.

Dauberman wrote Annabelle, Annabelle: Creation and Annabelle Comes Dwelling, which had been produced by Atomic Monster and are an integral a part of Wan’s The Conjuring Universe, the highest-grossing horror franchise of all time. He additionally penned Conjuring spinoff The Nun.

The partnership has been fruitful not solely due to the field workplace success, but additionally professionally, as Dauberman moved from behind the typewriter to behind the digicam, making his directorial debut with Annabelle Comes Dwelling.

And the 2 additionally labored collectively on Swamp Factor, the short-lived collection based mostly on the DC character that streamed on the now-defunct DC Universe platform.

Dauberman, repped by CAA, Trade Leisure and Felker Toczek, has continued to be one of many high horror skills on the town, penning the two-part adaptation of Stephen King’s It. The primary half grew to become the highest-grossing horror film of all time. He additionally has King adaptation Salem’s Lot, which he wrote and directed for Warner Bros., within the can.

Atomic Monster was one of many firms behind the horror hit M3GAN and is creating a collection adaptation of the Einer-winning comedian The Good Asian, in addition to effectively a function adaptation of horror online game Useless by Daylight.