Sex Criminals TV Series: Matt Fraction Adapting Comic For Universal
By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 25, 2015 11:30 am EST
We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. One of my current favorite comic book writers is Matt Fraction, and his Sex Criminals is one of my favorite on-going comic book series of the moment. I once half seriously joked on Twitter that David Fincher should direct the live action adaptation based on a screenplay adaptation from Chuck Palahniuk and John August. Now my dream version probably won’t ever happen, but Universal has signed Fraction and his collaborator/wife Kelly Sue DeConnick to a two-year television deal to develop comic book properties for the small screen. The first of which is, yes, Fraction and artist Chip Zdarsky’s Image Comics series Sex Criminals. Find out more about their deal and the Sex Criminals tv series, after the jump.
The news comes via Deadline, who says the married duo also “plan to use their Milkfed Criminal Masterminds production company as a TV launchpad for other comic creators’ IP.” No word on which comic series that may include, but lets hope its more Image Comics properties.
Sex Criminals TV Series: Matt Fraction Adapting Comic For Universal
By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 25, 2015 11:30 am EST
We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. One of my current favorite comic book writers is Matt Fraction, and his Sex Criminals is one of my favorite on-going comic book series of the moment. I once half seriously joked on Twitter that David Fincher should direct the live action adaptation based on a screenplay adaptation from Chuck Palahniuk and John August. Now my dream version probably won’t ever happen, but Universal has signed Fraction and his collaborator/wife Kelly Sue DeConnick to a two-year television deal to develop comic book properties for the small screen. The first of which is, yes, Fraction and artist Chip Zdarsky’s Image Comics series Sex Criminals. Find out more about their deal and the Sex Criminals tv series, after the jump.
The news comes via Deadline, who says the married duo also “plan to use their Milkfed Criminal Masterminds production company as a TV launchpad for other comic creators’ IP.” No word on which comic series that may include, but lets hope its more Image Comics properties.
We may receive a commission on purchases made from links.
The news comes via Deadline, who says the married duo also “plan to use their Milkfed Criminal Masterminds production company as a TV launchpad for other comic creators’ IP.” No word on which comic series that may include, but lets hope its more Image Comics properties.
Sex Criminals TV Series
But lets get back to Sex Criminals, because, well — you should be reading it right now and I need to convince you of that. The series was named the best comic of the year in 2013 by Time Magazine, and the series was nominated for two Eisner Awards in 2014 including Best Continuing Series and won Best New Series. Here is the official plot synopsis from the
back of the first issue:
As much as I first imagined the adaptation as a feature film, I’m very excited about the prospect of a Sex Criminals tv series because the story is one adventure which keeps unfolding in serialized television fashion.
Update: Matt Fraction wrote about the deal on his and Kelly Sue McConnick’s mailing list. The following is a transcript of the message:
So, big news:
Milkfed Criminal Masterminds — aka Kelly Sue & me — entered into a two-year “overall deal”( with Universal TV, with SEX CRIMINALS (co-created with Chip Zdarsky) as one part of that deal.
Deadline.com put that lovely announcement up this morning, but unfortunately the names of our co-creators were largely omitted in the piece. We’ve reached out and requested corrections, but in the meantime, know that the we co-create with Emma Ríos, Gabriel Bá, Fábio Moon, Christian Ward, Howard Chaykin, Steven Sanders, Kieron Dwyer, and Val De Landro and cannot conceive of our work without them. (TV folks just don’t quite understand how comics work yet is all, and we were not given the opportunity to see the piece before it went up.)
So. Anyway. EXCITEMENT.
We can also now OFFICIALLY welcome Lauren Sankovitch and Kit Cox to the fold. Sankovitch, formerly of Marvel and Muse Entertainment, comes on as our Managing Editor and Cox, whose business card reads “Lieutenant Trouble” is handling administrative duties. Wish them luck. (Kel made Kit listen to the Xanadu soundtrack yesterday. She is in the shit.)
(Milkfed’s housemother, majordomo and first non-Kelly Sue or Matt employee, Wendy Klein, is out of the office this week undergoing minor surgery. We’d appreciate your good thoughts for her and we’re sad she’s not here to celebrate with us today.)
