ABC Is Adapting STUMPTOWN and Cobie Smulders Will Star

ABC is adapting the comic Stumptown from Greg Rucka, and they have just cast Cobie Smulders as the lead. Here’s a brief description of the plot and Smulders’ character Dex.

“The project follows Dex Parios (Smulders), a strong, assertive, and unapologetically sharp-witted army veteran working as a P.I. in Portland, Oregon. With a complicated personal history and only herself to rely on, she solves other people’s messes with a blind eye toward her own.

Parios is further described as a whip-smart, hard-luck heroine you can’t help but get behind. Once a decorated Military Intelligence officer overseas, Dex is now back home in Portland, Oregon, unable to hold down a steady job, spinning her wheels, running up gambling debts, waiting for trouble to catch up with her.”

Wow. Sounds a bit like a non-superpowered version of Jessica Jones on the west coast. Of course, Dex is also an army veteran, but other than that, the two characters sound pretty similar. Have you read Stumptown? Are you excited for the series? Let us know in the comments.

Via: Variety