It’s been several years now since and creator Bryan Fuller last produced a full season of TV, with his most recent projects being an executive producer role on Sam Wineman’s Netflix docuseries —and then a blistering denunciation of Wineman, after the latter . (Legal action which has gone quiet since , when several mutual colleagues came forward supporting Fuller’s version of events.) Fuller’s history over the last near-decade, then, has mostly been about projects he didn’t make— after its first season, his , dropping out of , etc.
We can now add one more project to the heap: Fuller’s , which, , has now been, well, Bryan Fuller-ed. (Sorry: At some point, you either die a hero or live long enough to become a verb.) Fuller posted the news of his departure from the project on social media today, reporting that A24, which was producing the show with Peacock, has, “for reasons beyond our control.
.. elected to go a different way with the material.
” While thanking his co-showrunner on the project, Jim Danger Gray, Fuller threw a bit of mild shade at in the studios, noting that adapting classic horror material for modern audiences is “an ambitious and risky endeavor. It requires people to take the leap with me.” Peacock and A24 will now instead be taking the leap to another showrunning team, apparently; it’s not clear if they’ll be keeping any of the concept Fuller and Gray developed (which was titled ); the prequel series came into existence shortly after .
