Looking to succeed in adapting Daniel Handler's Lemony Snicket tomes where Paramount faltered back in 2004, Netflix has now announced that A Series Of Unfortunate Events will premiere on Friday 13 January next year. The news was delivered by the teaser, which you can find below.
Snicket's first book kicks off the tragic tale of the Baudelaire orphans – Violet (Malina Weissman), Klaus (Louis Hynes), and Sunny – whose evil guardian Count Olaf will stop at nothing to get his hands on their inheritance. The siblings must outsmart Olaf at every turn, foiling his many devious plans and disguises, in order to discover clues to their parents’ mysterious death.
Neil Patrick Harris is giving it his best scheming panto villain as Olaf (you can hear him chuckling in the distance in the teaser) and Patrick Warburton is Snicket, our suitably dour guide to the dreadful events. Eight episodes are initially on the way thanks to show-runner Mark Hudis and producer Barry Sonnenfeld and we've high hopes for this version.