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Nia DaCosta will Direct Sex Criminals

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Things are getting hot and heavy for Sex Criminals. Imogen Poots and John Reynolds were recently revealed as the stars for the series based on the comic series from Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky. Now, it’s been announced that Nia DaCosta will direct the Prime Video series as well as be an executive producer.

DaCosta will direct the first two episodes of the eight episode series. DaCosta is also executive producing and has a story credit on Southern Bastards, another series based on a comic with that coming to Hulu. Both Sex Criminals and Southern Bastards were comic series published by Image Comics.

Sex Criminals received a series order in January and the television series is from creators Kumail Nanjiani, Emily V. Gordon, and Tze Chun. Nanjiani will have a role in the series as well.

The series is about a girl who when she has sex, it stops time. She meets Jon, who has the same gift. And together, they decide to rob banks.

This isn’t the first comic based project for Nia DaCosta who wrote and directed 2023’s The Marvels for Marvel Studios and directed 2022’s Avengers Assemble: Flight Force.

Imogen Poots and John Reynolds are Our Sex Criminals

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Imogen Poots and John Reynolds will be starring in Sex Criminals, based on the comic series and has gotten a series order from Prime Video. Kumail Nanjiani, Emily V. Gordon, and Tze Chun are adapting the comic series from Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky. The show will run for eight episodes and based on the comic series that was published by Image Comics and ran from 2013 to 2020 running 32 issues (30 plus a #69 issue and one-shot). Nanjiani is set for a role in the series.

The series is about a girl who when she has sex, it stops time. She meets Jon, who has the same gift. And together, they decide to rob banks.

Imogen Poots has appeared in other comic properties having played Karen in 2017’s I Kill Giants and Young Valerie in 2005’s V for Vendetta. This will be the first comic related roll for Reynolds.

Nanjiani and Gordon will executive product the show through their Winter Coat Films. Chun will also exec produce as well as Winter Coat’s Dani Melia, Dani Gorin of LuckyChap, Fraction and Zdarsky. LuckyChap’s Louie Hayes produces.

The series has been praised and won numerous awards including two Eisners. It previously was in development at Universal Televion in he mid-2010s but the project didn’t move forward.

(via Deadline)

FX Orders Y: The Last Man to Series

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It’s been a bit since we heard any news concerning the television adaptation of Brian K. Vaughan‘s Y: The Last Man. Today, The Hollywood Reporter has reported that the series has been ordered and will come to screens in 2020.

After years of on and off, it looks like the beloved comic series is finally on. FX has announced it picked up the tv adaptation and handed out an order for it. Michael Green and Aïda Mashaka Croal are showrunners and executive producers for the series and it stars Barry Keoghan and Diane Lane. The cast also includes Amber Tamblyn, Imogen Poots, Lashana Lynch, Juliana Canfield, and Marin Ireland.

Originally published by DC Comics‘ Vertigo imprint the series was created by Vaughan and artist Pia Guerra running for 60 issues. The story revolves around Yorick Brown (Keoghan) who is the last surviving human with a Y chromosome, along with his Capuchin monkey, Ampersand.

Nina Jacobson, Brad Simpson, and Vaughan executive produce and developed the series. Melina Matsoukas directed the pilot.

It’s been a long path for the comic to make it to screen. FX began development in 2015 after New Line scrapped plans to make it a feature film. New Line acquired the rights in 2007. New Line wanted to create one two-hour stand-alone film whole others wanted a three-film franchise. Others set to develop it in March 2012 and that fell apart with the rights beginning to revert back to Vaughan in September 2014. In 2017 Vaughan said he was looking for a partner who loved the source material but not afraid to change it. The story has evolved some becoming more relevant today focusing on toxic masculinity and in the age of #MeToo and the Trump Presidency.

I Kill Giants Gets a Poster

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Opening March 23, I Kill Giants is based on the beloved comic from Joe Kelly and Ken Niimura. The fantasy story focuses on a young girl’s escape from her real world troubles. Directed by Anders Walter, with the story by Kelly, it stars Zoe Saldana, Imogen Poots, Madison Wolfe and Sydney Wade.

I Kill Giants Gets a Trailer

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Barbara Thorson struggles through life by escaping into a fantasy life of magic and monsters. Based on the graphic novel by Joe Kelly and J. M. Ken Numura, I Kill Giants stars Zoe Saldana, Imogen Poots, Jennifer Ehle.

I Kill Giants opens in theaters, On Demand and Digital HD on March 23.

A First Look at I Kill Giants

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Based on the modern classic comic series from Joe Kelly and J. M. Ken Niimura, the first footage from I Kill Giants has been released.

Adapted by director Anders Walter, I Kill Giants stars Madison Wolfe, Sydney Wade, Zoe Saldana, and Imogen Poots.

The film tells the story of Barbara Thompson, a teenage girl who escapes her mundane life into a magical world of titans and giants. With the help of her friend Sophia and the school therapist, Barbara learns to battle the giants and face her fears, bullies at school, her sister, and difficult home life.

The movie debuted at this weekend’s Toronto Film Festival. A general release date has not been announced.

Around the Tubes

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Gen Con has come and gone, sigh… but that means onto the reviews and commentary! There were a lot of games played and demoed and lots of public relation staff chatted with. Expect the news and reviews to start flowing out today.

Around the Blogs:

Bleeding Cool – Vin Diesel Dropping Vision Hints – Will We See Him Join The Marvel Movieverse? – He’s very good at playing a robot….

Bleeding Cool – Captain America 2 Sizing Up Anna Kendrick, Felicity Jones And Imogen Poots -Interesting…

 

Around the Tubes Reviews:

Bleeding Cool – Extermination #3

Bleeding Cool – Fatale #7

Bleeding Cool – Saga #6