On the heels of The Wicked + The Divine comic by Kieron Gillen, Jamie McKelvie and Matt Wilson landing three Eisner Award Inominations, including best new series, the breakout books are headed to TV. Universal Television has optioned the rights to the property for Matt Fraction and Kelly Sue DeConnick’s Milkfed Criminal Masterminds; they will produce the project through the pod deal they recently inked with the studio. In addition to adapting their own comics and developing original concepts, under the pact with Uni TV, Fraction and DeConnick had planned to use Milkfed as a TV launchpad for other comic creators’ IP, which is the case with The Wicked + The Divine.
The Wicked + The Divine, which was launched by Image Comics in June 2014, centers on a group of people with superhuman powers known as “The Pantheon”. It won the Best Comic at the 2014 British Comic Awards. In Bleeding Cool’s survey of 2014 Best of Year lists, it appeared in 12, the most of any new creator-owned series.
The Wicked + The Divine, which was launched by Image Comics in June 2014, centers on a group of people with superhuman powers known as “The Pantheon”. It won the Best Comic at the 2014 British Comic Awards. In Bleeding Cool’s survey of 2014 Best of Year lists, it appeared in 12, the most of any new creator-owned series.
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i see a cast full of beautiful people to incarnate those gods.
ReplyDeleteI read the first volume and enjoyed it a lot but I've fallen behind with it since. Should be interesting.
ReplyDeleteAwesome. I love the comic even if I've fallen behind on it so this should give me the incentive to catch up. Looking forward to it for sure.
ReplyDeleteI've fallen behind too - maybe the last three issues. The first six were pretty good an dI wonder how they will adapt this, should be interesting.
ReplyDeleteReally good comic series! (I too have only read volume one--but the art is so beautiful)I was kind of hoping that if American Gods fell through for Bryan Fuller over at Starz that maybe he would one day do this, but alas I think he about to announce cast for AG at comic con...
ReplyDeleteI've been wanting to start this but my local comic shop doesn't keep back issues of it for some reason. Sounds quite fascinating.
ReplyDeleteHaven't read it, but I do like Matt Fraction's stuff and I've seen it around.
ReplyDeleteSo this might actually give me incentive to get into reading it.