Guillermo Del Toro making a Twin Peaks-style detective drama for HBO

HBO and Guillermo Del Toro are making a show with a Twin Peaks and Hitchcock feel? Throw in some Gothic beast people, and we're sold.

THR broke the news that Del Toro is attached as direct and executive produce an adaptation of the book Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death by Corinne May Botz. It's a pretty insane idea, given that the book recreates a collection of unsolved cases from the past, along with photographs of the incredibly detailed dioramas that were constructed with each case. Here's the run down from Amazon:


The trade was not specific on whether this drama was a miniseries, series or movie — but it did reveal that Del Toro will direct, and crime novelist Sara Green will write. The project will be centered around a housewife from the 50s who tries to solve similar (we're guessing) crimes. Let's hope she makes dioramas as well. Words like Twin Peaks and Hitchcockian are being thrown around, and that's even better. Fingers crossed this comes out sooner rather than later.