We figured out the last two books together, Clockworks and Alpha & Omega, while we were filming the Locke & Key pilot, just hanging out in the hotel bar after a day of shooting. So, we were together for a week, and the best part of the filming of Locke & Key was that, every night, Gabe and I would go back to the bar, and we’d sit around and eat peanuts and talk about Locke & Key. He’s the artist and one of my best friends in the world, and we don’t get to hang out that much because he lives in Chile. The main thing that came out of the experience of the Locke & Key TV show was that I was there for a week while they filmed, and I was there with Gabriel Rodriguez, my collaborator on the comic. And Mark Romanek directed the hell out of it. He’s gone on to script Avatar 2 and 3, and he handled The Sarah Connor Chronicles. HILL: The showrunner and lead writer on that was Josh Friedman. It’s such a great pilot and the material was handled so beautifully. JOE HILL: Yeah, the pilot came out great! Collider: I saw the TV pilot that was done for Locke & Key and absolutely loved it.

Pilot talk trilogy