CRIMINAL Sequence Primarily based on Ed Brubaker’s Comics within the Works at Amazon — GeekTyrant

Amazon Studios has finalized a deal for the streamer to develop a sequence primarily based on the Prison comedian books from Ed Brubaker. The bestselling crime comedian sequence, which is drawn by artist Sean Phillips, can be govt produced and showrun by Brubaker.

Particulars on the challenge are restricted, however the sequence is described as an interlocking universe of crime tales.

Brubaker defined to Deadline in a 2019 interview:

“Prison tells the interweaving saga of a number of generations of households tied collectively by the crimes and murders of the previous. And one of many massive occasions in lots of of those characters’ pasts, which has been referenced for the reason that very first Prison story, was the demise of Teeg Lawless. Earlier than we even met Teeg, we knew that he had died when his son was a teen, however apart from the identification of his killer, we’ve got by no means informed the remainder of that story. It’s simply been a ghost haunting the sequence, as Teeg Lawless has grow to be one of the widespread characters within the comedian.”

Brubaker is primarily recognized for for his multi-layered, episodic crime sagas. Brubaker and artist Sean Phillips have spent fifteen years creating an enormous physique of authentic work extremely wanted for adaptation. Their sequence Prison, Incognito, Fatale, The Fade Out, and Kill or be Killed have bought hundreds of thousands of copies internationally.

As a TV author, Brubaker served as Supervising Producer on HBO’s Westworld, and, with director Nicolas Winding Refn, he co-created Amazon’s Too Previous to Die Younger, the primary streaming sequence to debut at Cannes. He not too long ago labored on Disney+’s The Falcon and the Winter Soldier and was co-showrunner of Batman: Caped Crusader, the animated sequence from govt producers Bruce Timm, J.J. Abrams and Matt Reeves, which had a straight-to-series order from HBO Max and Cartoon Community.

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by way of: Deadline