According to a report at Deadline, Showtime has grabbed the rights to Cullen Bunn and Brian Hurtt’s first comic collaboration, The Damned (SyFy has their latest). This marks Showtime’s second comic adaptation after Chew, although it’s the third book adaptation including the massively popular Dexter.
Tapping X-Men screenwriter (and voice of Solid Snake) David Hayter to write, the Damned follows a man trapped between different familys (of DEMONS) in a mob war in Prohibition era Chicago. Showtime is apparently going to be updating the show to a modern setting, however, so it’ll be interesting to see what the modern version of Prohibition is (drugs, I imagine?).
Of note here is that the Damned isn’t technicaly finished in comic book form, with Bunn and Hurtt planning at least another three issues if not more for the series. Either way, congrats to both Bunn and Hurtt on their success!
(Whenever their third collaboration comes out, I hope I own a TV network or movie studio so I can buy the rights before anyone else.)
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