Just when we'd forgotten about A&E's "Bates Motel", a potential series from Universal Television for A&E that would serve as a prequel to the Alfred Hitchcock 1960 classic Psycho, we get a jolt of news that reminds us that this project is very much alive. Carlton Cuse has joined the Roy Lee and Mark Wolper produced series.
Per The Hollywood Reporter, "Carlton Cuse, who along with Damon Lindelof executive produced and acted as showrunners of ABC's "Lost", is boarding A&E’s "The Bates Motel". If the show is picked up to series, Cuse will executive produce and oversee the writing and production what is being envisioned intially as a six-episode “event" that would lead to additional seasons. It also marks the first “genre†TV project for Cuse since his acclaimed run on "Lost"."
The show, "aims to tell the story of a young Bates and how his life with his deranged mother and her lover unhinged his mind, eventually turning him into a serial killer. It has been described as a cross between "Twin Peaks" and "Smallville"."
