Entities/Person/John Carpenter

John Carpenter

Person ⌖ Watchlist
last seen in coverage Aug 15
83
Wire items · since Feb 18
10
Deal items
8
Tracked projects
7
Months active
15
Multi-source stories

What they buy · across 10 tracked deal items

40% of tracked dealflow (4/10) is remake reboot; 56% of classified deal mediums are film; 89% of staged deals sit early-funnel (in-development or greenlit).machine-derived from the deal record below — not an editorial mandate statement

Deal type
remake reboot 4
book adaptation 2
series order pilot pickup 1
podcast ip adaptation 1
public domain adaptation 1
Reported stage
in development 6
greenlit 2
in production 1
Medium
film 5
industry 3
tv limited series 1

Slate · 8 projects from coveragegrouped by latest reported stage — reported, never inferred

In development 5
Project · attachedDeal typeLatest reported stageItemsLast seen
Thing
Kurt Russell · Keith David · Rob Bottin
in development 16 Aug 15
Cathedral
Cody Carpenter · Daniel Davies
public domain adaptation book adaptation in development 10 Aug 15
Escape From New York
Kurt Russell · Zack Snyder · Rob Bottin
remake reboot in development 6 Aug 12
They Live 4 May 26
Horror Show
Willem Dafoe · Osgood Perkins · Tananarive Due
3 Aug 14
Greenlit 2
Project · attachedDeal typeLatest reported stageItemsLast seen
Halloween
John Landis · Rob Zombie · Eli Roth
greenlit 9 Aug 14
John Carpenter’s Toxic Commando greenlit 3 Mar 13
Seeking distribution 1
Project · attachedDeal typeLatest reported stageItemsLast seen
Thing Expanded
Kurt Russell · Keith David · Rob Bottin
completed seeking distribution 5 May 22

Key people · from coveragenames as they appear in sourced items; no contact data by design

Kurt RussellNamed in coverage10i · 2d
Cody CarpenterNamed in coverage7i · 1d
Daniel DaviesNamed in coverage7i · 1d
Keith DavidNamed in coverage4i · 0d
Rob BottinNamed in coverage4i · 0d
Steven SpielbergNamed in coverage3i · 0d
David FincherNamed in coverage3i · 0d
David CronenbergNamed in coverage3i · 0d
Brian De PalmaNamed in coverage3i · 0d
Zack SnyderNamed in coverage3i · 2d
Robert CarradineNamed in coverage2i · 0d
Jeff BridgesNamed in coverage2i · 0d
AFFILIATED = APPEARS IN ≥15% OF ALL JOHN CARPENTER COVERAGE · OTHERS ARE COUNTERPARTIES ON SPECIFIC PROJECTS

Activity · by month

6
FEB
17
MAR
21
APR
19
MAY
4
JUN
3
JUL
13
AUG
WIRE ITEMSDEAL SHARE

Works with · top 8 of 24click to expand shared record

CounterpartyItemsDeals
LegendaryCO 160
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Kurt RussellPERSON 102
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Storm King ComicsCO 82
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Cody CarpenterPERSON 71
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Daniel DaviesPERSON 71
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Sandy King 71
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The ThingTITLE 60
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Sacred Bones RecordsCO 52
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Deal record · 10 entriesamounts shown as reported — ScreamWire tracks deal flow, not comps

Aug 14 Paramount Officially Making Action Fantasy Version of Classic John Carpenter Thriller
remake-reboot @ in-development
with Paramount, Paramount Pictures
MovieWeb C
Aug 14 ‘Tower Defense’ – Paramount Movie Described as Medieval Supernatural Version of ‘Assault on Precinct 13’
Deal @ in-development
with Paramount Primal, Tower Defense, Howard Hawks +2
Bloody Disgusting+2 src A
Aug 12 ‘Escape From New York’: Zack Snyder’s Remake May Land At Warner Bros., But The SnyderVerse Won’t Return
remake-reboot
with Zack Snyder, Warner Bros., Escape from New York +1
The Playlist+2 src C
Jun 8 Zack Snyder Reimagining Beloved John Carpenter Sci-Fi Movie
remake-reboot @ in-development
with Zack Snyder, Studiocanal, The Picture Company +3
AOL.com B
May 30 ‘That Texas Blood’ – Cormac McCarthy Meets John Carpenter in FX’s Neo-Noir TV Series
book-adaptation @ in-development
with FX, Jim Mickle, E.L. Katz +3
Bloody Disgusting A
May 20 John Carpenter’s Cathedral: New Album and Graphic Novel August 2026 via Sacred Bones
public-domain-adaptation @ greenlit
with Sacred Bones Records, Storm King Comics, Cathedral
HorrorBuzz B
May 20 Horror Icon John Carpenter Confirms An Addition To His Upcoming Comic That Fans Will Need
book-adaptation @ in-development
with Cody Carpenter, Daniel Davies, Storm King Comics +5
Comic Book Resources A
Apr 14 Remake of John Carpenter's Cult-Classic Action Thriller Officially Revived
remake-reboot @ in-development
with Studiocanal, Escape from New York, Kurt Russell +4
Google News (John Carpenter) A
Apr 8 John Carpenter Launches New Horror Podcast Inspired by Real Events
podcast-ip-adaptation @ in-production
with Sandy King, Storm King Productions, Cineverse +3
Google News (John Carpenter) B
Apr 7 Bloody Disgusting & Storm King Launching Two New “John Carpenter Presents” Scripted Podcasts!
series-order-pilot-pickup @ greenlit
with Storm King Productions
Bloody Disgusting A+

Recent mentions · 10 of 73

Methodology

Source. Assembled from ScreamWire's classified archive — 83 wire items (Feb 18 → Aug 15) matching John Carpenter, deduplicated by URL (1 cross-day re-sightings removed). Every entry links to the original reporting. Descriptive, never predictive.

Why no deal amounts. Only 0.9% of tracked deal items site-wide carry a reported figure — the trades rarely publish terms — so dollar amounts appear only as the source phrased them (e.g. “rich eight-figure deal”), never as comparable numbers. This is a deal-flow tracker, not a comps database.

Buyer/seller roles are captured on a minority of deal items today; role-based stats are suppressed until capture coverage improves.

Slate clusters coverage by project title; stage is the latest reported stage, never a projection. Amber “via” badges mark titles tracked within this entity's coverage orbit but released by another distributor. Grades are ScreamWire's editorial coverage grade — how strongly the wire covered the story — not a deal-quality score.

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