DC's Native American Crime Noir Scalped To Get TV Series

[Karloff]

DC's Native American Crime Noir Scalped To Get TV Series

The 60-issue Vertigo series has been picked up by cable's WGN America.

Back in 2007 writer-artist team Jason Aaron and R.M. Guéra brought their fictional Prairie Rose Indian Reservation to life, and peopled it with any number of crooks, sinners, dodgy politicians and one crime-fighting undercover F.B.I. agent: series hero Dashiell Bad Horse. It enjoyed a 60 issue run and the love of its hard-core fans, and now it's about to go one step further, onto the small screen. Cable network WGN America has picked up the Vertigo series, with Doug Jung [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1136647/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1], currently working on small town crime series Banshee, as scriptwriter and producer.

"It's not a series that's ever going to sell 100,000 copies a month in the direct market," said writer John Constantine's cigarettes [http://www.newsarama.com/1313-jason-aaron-sticking-with-scalped.html], there may be elements of Scalped that won't play well with the cable bosses.

DC's been busy of late. Scalped joins Constantine, iZombie, Hourman, Preacher, and Gotham in its soon-to-be-televised lineup. Development is a relatively new thing for Chicago-based WGN, which until recently didn't have an original series of its own. Here's hoping WGN manages something special with Scalped.

Source: Hollywood Reporter [http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/wgn-america-adapting-dc-comics-696035]


Permalink

 

[CrazyBlaze]

Calling that that no actual Native Americans will be cast into any lead roles.

 

[Alfador_VII]

Calling that that no actual Native Americans will be cast into any lead roles.

I hope someone has learned from the Shitstorm around Lone Ranger. Yeah I know it was a terrible movie, and that wasn't the only problem but still..

 

[Vault101]

while the VERTIGO imprint is owned by DC I feel like it would be more accurate to say the "VERTIGO" series since its not in the DCU....Preacher is another vertigo title that could possibly get a TV series (still I suppose DC is more familiar)

I've heard of this but never looked into it as it seemed too "real" for my tastes

 

[Ticklefist]

Wonder if it will be anything like Izombie: Buy the name, keep a female zombie in it, change everything else.

 

[softclocks]

A lot of potential with this one.

Let's hope they don't screw it up.

 

[the December King]

Oh boy!

Been a fan for a long time of Scalped. I sure do hope they can REALLY stick to the comic on this one, for story, for characters, all of it.

 

[Erttheking]

...Well there's a series of words I'd never thought would get put together. I think I'm at the very least gonna give this a look. Hope they actually get Native American actors.

 

[GiantRaven]

Wonder if it will be anything like Izombie: Buy the name, keep a female zombie in it, change everything else.

Eugh. When I read the details around that I mentally threw up in my mouth. There's a perfectly great story there ripe for the taking, why ignore it?