More than ten years after the first three books of "A Series of Unfortunate Events" were adapted in the big screen in a film starring Jim Carrey as villain Count Olaf, now fans of the saga will see the new version of the books written by Daniel Handler, as Lemony Snicket's Netflix adaptation gets its very first teaser!
The new Lemony Snicket Netflix teaser is no more than 35 seconds long, and it was actually released as though it'd been leaked, following the narrative style of the saga, and it was YouTube user "Eleanora Poe" who released it, a reference to the editor of newspaper The Daily Punctilio who fires narrator Snicket after writing a bad review.
According to The Verge, the Lemony Snicket Netflix teaser is full of Easter eggs that fans of the young adult-directed novel will love, such as leftovers of pasta (a reference to the puttanesca the Baudelaire orphans make for Count Olaf in "The Bad Beginning"), a leech in a jar from Lake Lachrymose (from "The Wide Window"), Klaus Baudelaire's glasses, a book on arson (a major plot point in the series, along with the symbol for the Volunteer Fire Department or V.F.D.).
Other Easter eggs on the Lemony Snicket Netflix trailer include items from books "The Vile Village" and "The Miserable Mill," as well as the silhouette of the series' main villain, Count Olaf.
As CNET reports, the Lemony Snicket Netflix series, which will debut in 2016, follows the lives of orphans Violet, Klaus and Sunny Baudelaire after their parents die in a terrible fire, as they have a distant relative named Count Olaf who tries to catch them to get their fortune, bringing them misery everywhere they go - while mysterious author Snicket narrates, somehow connected to everything they go through.
According to Empire Online, the streaming and production company site has kept tight-lipped about the Lemony Snicket Netflix adaptation, and there's very little known so far besides the fact that Snicket himself, which is to say Daniel Handler under a pen name, will have a much greater role than he did for the 2004 adaptation, which also starred Jude Law, Meryl Streep, Dustin Hoffman and Craig Ferguson, among others.
