Nearly three decades after Gargoyles premiered, The Hollywood Reporter reveals that Gary Dauberman and James Wan’s Atomic Monster banner will be tackling a live-action adaptation of the cult, animated television series for Disney+.

Dauberman will write, executive produce and serve as showrunner for the series with Atomic Monster, the company run by Wan and Michael Clear, taking on executive producing duties. The project is reportedly in early development at Disney Branded Television.

Gargoyles aired three seasons from 1994 to 1997, and told the story of gargoyle statues moved from a castle in medieval Scotland to modern-day New York City. Once in the Big Apple, the statues awaken from a thousand-year-old spell and take on the mantle of protecting their new home, becoming “stone by day, warriors by night.”

Per the show’s opening narration, “One thousand years ago, superstition and the sword ruled. It was a time of darkness. It was a world of fear. It was the age of gargoyles. Stone by day, warriors by night, we were betrayed by the humans we had sworn to protect, frozen in stone by a magic spell for a thousand years. Now, here in Manhattan, the spell is broken, and we live again! We are defenders of the night! We are gargoyles!”

Dauberman and Wan are best known for their collaborations on The Nun and hit Annabelle trilogy horror movies, part of the latter’s Conjuring Universe.

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