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A television series based on the horror film “Poltergeist” is being prepared

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By Julio Cortes

Oct 31, 2023, 12:31 PM EDT

Just a few days after it was announced that the studies Amazon MGM They will produce a television series based on the film “The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo”that same company now reported that another of its new projects is an adaptation of “Poltergeist”the 1982 film that became a box office success and at the same time a horror film classic.

Directed by Tobe Hooper and produced by Steven Spielberg, “Poltergeist” is about a family that moves into a house where ghosts live.; The little daughter is kidnapped by spirits, so her parents hire a parapsychologist in order to recover her. The film gave rise to two sequels and a new version was released in 2015, without the same success as the original film.

The series “Poltergeist” will premiere on the Amazon Prime Video platform, probably at the end of 2024; In the coming months the names of the producers and scriptwriters of the project will be announced. Amazon MGM Studios has plans to bring more series based on successful films to the small screen, among which also stand out “Robocop”, “Barbershop” and “Legally Blonde”.

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