News: John Carpenter and His Producing Partner Wife Are Coming to Television

Legendary John Carpenter, director of iconic films Halloween, Escape from New York, The Thing, and Big Trouble in Little China, is coming to television.

Carpenter and his wife and producing partner Sandy King Carpenter have four TV series "waiting to go to network" and that all of them "push the boundaries of what's horror."

If any are picked up, Carpenter would direct the pilots and both he and she would serve as executive producers. 

Sandy King Carpenter commented:

"As far as I'm concerned, we'll do all of them.... There's sci-fi, there's horror, there's one that I guess would be [a] sci fi-horror futuristic kind of thing. They're all across the board. I think they'll fulfill what people expect out of him by also being unpredictable."

Carpenter also has a number of small screen directing credits, including the 1979 TV movie, Elvis, and two episodes of Showtime’s Masters of Horror anthology show.

Source: EW