Nickelodeon Movies and Paramount Pictures once planned to produce a movie and TV series inspired by the paranormal-themed Ectokid comic book series!
Created by Clive Barker, best known for his horror work like Hellraiser and Nightbreed, as one of four series set in the "Barkerverse" for Marvel Comics under the Razorline imprint. Ectokid was a series about Dexter Mungo, the 14-year-old son of a mortal and a ghost who is able to see and interact with the dangerous, interdimensional Ectosphere.
Ectokid lasted just nine issues, being published between Sept. 1993 – May 1994 before being discontinued with the rest of the Razorline titles.
After the cancellation of Razorline, Barker sold the television and film rights to Nickelodeon Movies and Paramount Pictures in 2001. The film was set to have Barker, Don Murphy, and Nickelodeon's Albie Hecht and Julia Pistor as producers, Joe Daley as executive producer, and Karen Rosenfelt overseeing development at Paramount. Barker would also act as executive producer of the television series, with Daley and Murphy as producers. Talking to Daily Variety, Barker explained that his aim was to create "a franchisable world" for the studio, "of great, transcendent beauty; one that reconfigures people's expectations of what ghosts are, of what comes after death."
Unfortunately, plans for the movie and TV series fell through, so fans never got to see Ectokid on the big - or small screen.
However, although Nickelodeon never moved past the planning stages, Barker recently said that a new second attempt at bringing Ectokid to TV is in the works.
You can find out more about Ecto-Kid on Clive Barker's official website, clivebarker.com.
Originally published: Friday, October 23, 2020.
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