King Signs Deal to Adapt “Colorado Kid” As TV Series

When author Stephen King discovered the new mystery line Hard Case Crime, he was so impressed by the range’s offerings (a blend of out of print hard boiled crime novels mixed with new offerings in the same style) that he immediately signed up to help get the series on the map.

The result was the best-selling novel, “The Colorado Kid,” which was a hard-boiled mystery thriller with a lot of dashes of King’s trademarks thrown in for good measure.

Now King has signed a deal with independent studio E1 to bring “The Colorado Kid” to television as a weekly series.

Titled “Haven,” the project centers on a spooky town in Maine where cursed folk live normal lives in exile. When those curses start returning, FBI agent Audrey Parker is brought in to keep those supernatural forces at bay — while trying to unravel the mysteries of Haven.

The team who turned King’s “The Dead Zone” into a series for USA Network are at it again for “Haven”: Scott Shepherd will serve as showrunner and executive producer with Lloyd Segan and Shawn Piller. Shepherd, Segan and Piller were all producers on “The Dead Zone,” which ran for six seasons and went off the air in 2008.

Two more “Dead Zone” alums, Sam Ernst and Jim Dunn, are writing the pilot and will also serve as executive producers. E1’s John Morayniss and Noreen Halpern are executive producers as well.

E1 has already committed to producing 13 episodes of “Haven” and is in advanced talks with several European broadcast partners to sign on and help finance the show.

Production is set to begin within the next six months, after casting is completed.