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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)

Sex Criminals gets a Prime Video Order

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Kumail Nanjiani, Emily V. Gordon, and Tze Chun are adapting Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky‘s Sex Criminals for Prime Video. 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.

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 The Hollywood Reporter)

TKO Studios announces Black Mass Rising and The Forgotten Blade

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BLACK MASS RISING

by Theo Prasidis and Jodie Muir • Print MSRP: $19.99 U.S. / $25.99 CAN • Release Date: March 15th

Set one year after the death of Dracula, hope is returning to the lands of Transylvania, and a young peasant girl named Aurelia dares to dream of a better future, free from the yoke of the devil’s hundred years of darkness. But when a mysterious Healer drifts into town, seeking to cure land and people alike, a terrifying new evil stirs across the blasted lands and it seems that the lord of the undead is not through yet…or could it be an even greater evil? Dive into this titanic and darkly fantastical reimagining / sequel of Bram Stoker’s sanguine classic.

BLACK MASS RISING

THE FORGOTTEN BLADE

by Tze Chun and Toni Fejzula • Print MSRP: $19.99 U.S. / $25.99 CAN • Release Date: March 15th

In the land of the Five Rivers, the magical waters that flow from the Citadel grant incredible powers to the people who know to use them. Power that the Church of the Citadel guards jealously and with an iron fist. Years after Ruza the Unwashed, the world’s greatest warrior and wielder of the mystical Forgotten Blade, destroyed the last chance for the people to overthrow the Church’s cruel tyranny, he is recruited by a schoolteacher to save the souls of her two children cursed by inquisitors for no crime at all. To do that, they must do what no one has ever done — infiltrate the Citadel, discover the source of the Five Rivers, and vanquish the most powerful adversary of all: the malevolent god who created this world in the first place.

THE FORGOTTEN BLADE

New Regency Inks Production Deal With TKO Studios To Develop its Comic Titles For TV

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New Regency has announced that it has entered into a development and production partnership with publisher, TKO Studios. Under the terms of the deal, New Regency will have the right to exclusively develop television projects from TKO Studios’ expansive library of IP. TKO’s Salvatore Simeone and Tze Chun will develop, produce, and package all shows with New Regency. 

Founded by Salvatore Simeone and Tze Chun, TKO Studios is known for publishing original graphic novels by top creators such as Jeff Lemire, Garth Ennis, Roxane Gay, Gabriel H Walta, Steve Epting, and many more. TKO Studios debuted in 2018 with an innovative “binge release model” that simultaneously publishes entire storylines in both print and digital formats. TKO’s roster includes 11 Amazon #1 bestsellers and consists of graphic novels and fiction in a variety of genres.