Neil Patrick Harris announced on his Twitter account on 16th January that he would be portraying the role of Count Olaf in Netflix's rendition of the books.
These books were most people's - 18-25 age group mainly, considering the first book (A Bad Beginning) was released in 1999 - childhood and they were magnificent. Lemony Snicket (actual name, Daniel Handler) created a world that was frightening yet brilliant, it was magical.
The film 'A Series of Unfortunate Events' was released in 2004 and starred Jim Carrey and Emily Browning. It wasn't that good. They tried to fit three very detailed and very genius books into one film and it didn't work.
So far all we know is that Netflix have had this show under production since 2014, but has been slowed down due to the man that was supposed to be running the show - Mark Hudis - left, leaving no replacement. That was a pain. Barry Sonnefeld joined the show's crew last year as a producer and may even be a potential director. Daniel Handler has also come on board the show to be an executive producer.
Netflix has already ordered a first season for the much-anticipated TV show - but how many episodes there will be in the first season is unknown and the release date is also unknown.
Knowing how good Netflix have made Jessica Jones, Daredevil, Orange is the New Black and more original Netflix shows, hopefully they will delve into the darkness and the grittiness of the books instead of making it a PG family film. Only by making it dark will they truly show the horror of what this orphans went through.
The set of 13 books follows the journey of three orphans: Violet, Klaus and Sunny Baudelaire who are trying to escape the clutches of their evil relative, Count Olaf. He pretends to be all kinds of different people throughout the books to try and capture the children so he can have their fortune that their parents left them.
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