Status Updates From House of Leaves: Teleplays

Counting 25% as reading the “leaked” scrapped pilot and the other 75% the three teleplays. Very very cool way to adapt HoL as a TV show. Love the initial setup the book being “stolen” and thus real. Not sure how that connects to the rest of the teleplay where House of Leaves explicitly trades all literary elements for that of visual media and seems to act like there was never any book? Oh well

Well… I certainly wasn’t expecting MZD’s second conception of a “House of Leaves” TV show to not only be so radically different from both the book, AND his original 2018 pilot script, but to also basically start off so sprawling, fractured, and conspiratorial, like a cross between “Twin Peaks: The Return” and “Scandal”, with a J-horror dash of “Pulse” or “The Ring”. But hey, I’m in…