100 Bullets is one of my favorite comics. Seriously. And I’ve been waiting for the 100 Bullets TV show since 2009. So now I’m rather pleased to share the news with you that David S. Goyer, the man behind several popular (and unpopular, to be fair) comic adaptations will be bring 100 Bullets to Showtime.
According to the report at Deadline, Goyer will be exec producing and writing the series, which is about a mysterious man named Agent Graves who approaches people with a briefcase containing a gun and 100 untraceable bullets, as well as a dossier on someone who has wronged them. It’s up to the recipient of the case to decide what to do with the information. Of course, in parallel with this is the ongoing story of a group of men called the Minutemen, who have a very mysterious connection to a certain powerful group of individuals. Suffice it to say, it’s very easy to translate this kind of a comic to TV.
For reference, Goyer wrote all of the Blade films, co-wrote Batman Begins and worked on the story of the Dark Knight/the Dark Knight Rises. He also wrote a treatment of the upcoming Man of Steel film, as well as worked on the Blade show and Flash Forward. So it’s obviously a varied assortment of previous work that I’m sure everyone has their own opinions of. However, 100 Bullets would translate rather easily to screen as it has no supernatural elements (not really, anyway) and is a very hardboiled conspiracy crime drama. It could easily work as a multi-seasoned arc show, along the lines of LOST or even the Wire.
Cross your fingers that this will come out well. I’d say it could go either way at this point, but I’m an optimist.
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