Netflix Commercial Locke & Key | From Comic to Screen 2025

VIDEO Netflix Locke & Key | From Comic to Screen TV commercial 2020 • Locke and Key co-creators Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriquez— join showrunners Carlton Cuse and Meredith Averill — to talk about the graphic novels' journey from comic to screen. Locke and Key debuts on Netflix on February 7. Netflix is the world's leading streaming entertainment service with over 158 million paid memberships in over 190 countries enjoying TV series, documentaries and feature films across a wide variety of genres and languages. Members can watch as much as they want, anytime, anywhere, on any internet-connected screen. Members can play, pause and resume watching, all without commercials or commitments. 00:07 I had this one idea for a horror story 00:10 about a house that was almost alive. 00:12 And it would be full of these enchanted keys. 00:15 Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodríguez 00:17 wrote an incredible comic 00:19 and I just had a real passion to bring it to the screen. 00:22 It’s very exciting to see everything coming to life 00:26 in a project like this. 00:27 Locke and Key has had a very long path to screen. 00:30 The first issue came out in 2008 00:32 and almost from the beginning it had 00:34 a very passionate fan base. 00:39 One of the more challenging aspects 00:40 of translating from the comic book 00:43 was the head key. 00:44 Literally your brain opens up as if it were a lid. 00:47 And the most iconic image is this double page spread 00:51 in which the Locke kids peek 00:53 into the head of Bode Locke. 00:56 Bode. 00:57 Hey guys, you gotta come see this. 01:00 In our version of the head key 01:02 it sticks in the back of someone’s neck 01:04 so you can physically walk into your own brain. 01:08 And you can change things too. 01:09 You can meddle in a very serious way 01:11 with your own memories, thoughts, impulses. 01:15 What is it? 01:16 The first time Dad took me 01:17 to the top of the Space Needle. 01:19 Wanna see? 01:19 I’m good. 01:21 The genius of Joe Hill was that he was able to tell 01:24 such a rich and layered story. 01:26 So it’s been amazing to have him as a resource too. 01:29 It’s like someone used the head key on me 01:31 but now it’s all real. 01:34 We told you not to screw around with the keys.- advertisement spot 2020