Netflix Releases First 'Lemony Snicket' Teaser (VIDEO)
Less than a year after Netflix announced it would be adapting a second "A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket," it released its first teaser over the weekend.
Villainous Count Olaf's shadow looms over the new teaser Netflix released Sunday to promote the TV adaptation of "Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events" it announced in November last year.
The TV series will be based on the series of children's novels which span 13 books and follow the adventures of the Baudelaire children when they are placed in the custody of their dubious relative Count Olaf after their parents are killed in a mysterious fire.
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American author, Daniel Handler, who used the pen name Lemony Snicket, published the series from 1999 through 2006, from which a 2004 dark comedy was based on and released by Paramount in 2004, starring Jim Carrey, Meryl Streep, Emily Browning and Liam Aiken.
After securing the rights to the series, Netflix announced it would be adapting the novels for an original television show 10 years after the top grossing film hit theaters.
The Internet streaming media provider has yet to release the names of the director, and who its primary cast will be, but displayed their intention to remain true to the dark and ominous atmosphere of the books and the movie version based on the teaser's eerie and sinister atmosphere.
The 35-second clip features a smoking book, "How to Start Fires," with Klaus' glasses perched atop it, an eye symbol dripping black ink from a framed photo on the wall, one of the carnivorous Lachrymose Leeches from "The Wide Window" trapped in a mason jar, a disembodied hand crushing a spider, and the shadow of antagonist, Count Olaf darkening the doorway.
Netflix's "A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket" is scheduled to premiere in 2016.
