Wicked and Divine will be a TV show.
Deadline broke the story.
On the heels of The Wicked + The Divine comic by Kieron Gillen, Jamie McKelvie and Matt Wilson landing three Eisner Award Image nominations, 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.
Copies of the Wicked + Divine #1 can be found crazy cheap on eBay right now, including many starting for $1.
Mycomicshop still has the Brian O’Malley variants on sale. We had this as a pick of the week many months ago.
You hear so much about comics being turned into tv shows but they rarely go through. I heard DMZ, Ronin, Clone, Letter 44, Rat Queens, Todd the Ugliest kid on Earth, and plenty more. So far the only one that seems to be making progress is Preacher.
But when they go through they rarely disappoint.
And Outcast. But that’s probably because its a Kirkman deal.
These things take time, Walking Dead took 5 years and Bloodshot’s taken 8 to 10 years on and off.
I think I’ve said it once before but my wife claims (she works on films/tv shows) that at least 90% of the things that even go as far as filming people will never see. She worked on a movie 3 years ago that was finished and it’s just sitting on a shelf somewhere waiting for a production company to actually pick up to distribute to movie theaters or maybe straight to DVD.
So when you hear about an “option”, that is the first of many many steps involved. Getting optioned means nothing really. The only reason it gets mentioned on sites like this is due to speculating.
It sells books. I sell books.
Exactly…. 😉
I really enjoy this series. And issue #11 has a super awesome beheading cover coming out next week. Great news!
What variants will be the best to go after? I’ve already picked up the Newbury variant for #1 and SDCC variant of #2 for cheap.
Forbidden Planet had a nice one as well has Lucifer in the cover.
Man, this series hasn’t really seen much traction as a result of the option news. Buying variants might be kind of a risky proposition when complete sets are only selling for $44 bucks right now. I have two complete runs of this series (I keep readers for favorite series/things I think friends might want later), but the prices are so low I’d rather keep them than see them go to someone I don’t know.
I keep seeing cosplayers dressed as characters. Which is s good sign. I just think there are a lot of copies out there right now.
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I really hope things pick up soon, this is one of those reads that I’ve always been bummed out didn’t become valuable based on its literary merits alone.
It is a good book.
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Maybe I’ll have to give it another try (perhaps TPB).. it was around the time I was cutting a bunch cause my pickup/reading list was just getting chaotic.