CRIMINAL Series Based on Ed Brubaker's Comics in the Works at Amazon
Amazon Studios has finalized a deal for the streamer to develop a series based on the Criminal comic books from Ed Brubaker. The bestselling crime comic series, which is drawn by artist Sean Phillips, will be executive produced and showrun by Brubaker.
Details on the project are limited, but the series is described as an interlocking universe of crime stories.
Brubaker explained to Deadline in a 2019 interview:
“Criminal tells the interweaving saga of several generations of families tied together by the crimes and murders of the past. And one of the big events in many of these characters’ pasts, which has been referenced since the very first Criminal story, was the death of Teeg Lawless. Before we even met Teeg, we knew that he had died when his son was a teenager, but other than the identity of his killer, we have never told the rest of that story. It’s just been a ghost haunting the series, as Teeg Lawless has become one of the most popular characters in the comic.”
Brubaker is primarily known for for his multi-layered, episodic crime sagas. Brubaker and artist Sean Phillips have spent fifteen years creating a massive body of original work highly sought after for adaptation. Their series Criminal, Incognito, Fatale, The Fade Out, and Kill or be Killed have sold millions of copies internationally.
As a TV writer, Brubaker served as Supervising Producer on HBO’s Westworld, and, with director Nicolas Winding Refn, he co-created Amazon’s Too Old to Die Young, the first streaming series to debut at Cannes. He recently worked on Disney+’s The Falcon and the Winter Soldier and was co-showrunner of Batman: Caped Crusader, the animated series from executive producers Bruce Timm, J.J. Abrams and Matt Reeves, which had a straight-to-series order from HBO Max and Cartoon Network.
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via: Deadline