A pair of writer/producers whose star is on the rise, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci (whose careers kicked into high gear with the likes of Alias, Fringe, and big-budget movies like Transformers and Star Trek), have sold a supernatural/horror pilot to Fox. Based on the IDW Publishing comic book of the same name, Locke & Key is being written and overseen by Sarah Connor Chronicles‘ Josh Friedman, and is currently being planned as a summer series for 2011.

According to IDW, Locke & Key, from New York Times bestselling novelist Joe Hill, is described thus:

…tells of Keyhouse, an unlikely New England mansion, with fantastic doors that transform all who dare to walk through them, and home to a hate-filled and relentless creature that will not rest until it forces open the most terrible door of them all…