Announced today, it looks like Warren Ellis’ novel “Gun Machine” is going to be a television show — but for your XBOX One.
Just like how Sony jumped into the ring to start developing original programming of their own programming for the Playstation (see: Powers), Microsoft is developing several things for the XBOX, and that includes “Gun Machine.” Here’s the description of the show, listed not as a committed project (like the Halo adaptation) but rather a project in development.
Xbox Entertainment Studios acquired the rights to “Gun Machine,” a hardboiled detective thriller based on the New York Times bestselling novel by Warren Ellis. Ellis will executive produce with Brett Conrad (“The Killing,” “Sons of Anarchy,” Netflix’s upcoming “Marco Polo”) who has signed on to write the pilot script about a detective tracking a serial killer who is tied to a mysterious collection of guns used in infamous New York murders.
“Gun Machine” as a show makes a lot of sense, as it is very much a procedural novel. If done as a show, like a mix of Se7en and perhaps Broadchurch (or, I suppose, The Killing and The Bridge), it could easily be very entertaining — especially if they keep in Ellis’ cynical characters with gruff attitudes and equally angry lines of dialogue. “Gun Machine” is basically the anti-cop show, as noted in our review, so it’ll be interesting to see it as a program in contrast with the other type of procedurals we’re more used to.
Either way, this is another notch on the Year Of Ellis belt, and we’ll certainly be intrigued to watch it if it comes to fruition.
