Proper now, Prime Video is on a fairly good streak with adapting numerous properties to TV. Between Essential Position, Jack Reacher, and Invincible, plus its numerous unique sequence, the streamer is nice about discovering one thing for a specific area of interest.

Per Deadline, Prime Video is at the moment finalizing plans to adapt Picture Comics’ crime sequence Felony. Written by Ed Brubaker (Batman, Uncanny X-Males) and drawn by Sean Phillips (Hellblazer, Kill or Be Killed), the sequence already has Brubaker tapped as an govt producer and showrunner, and a writers room is reportedly already going. The comics author has been part of the TV world for years, and most just lately was the chief producer and head author for HBO Max’s Batman: Caped Crusader, which is at the moment being shopped round to different streamers.

Launched in 2006, Felony has beforehand been described by Brubaker as “the interweaving saga of a number of generations of households tied collectively by the crimes and murders of the previous.” Every story arc is self-contained and focuses on a distinct set of characters dwelling in Heart Metropolis, all of whom frequent the identical bar and have comparable upbringings within the crime world. The ebook was initially a part of Marvel Comics’ Icon imprint earlier than being republished by Picture in 2019, and its final difficulty launched again in 2020. Brubaker and Phillips have been longtime collaborators for years, having created fellow Picture books Kill or Be Killed, Fatale, and The Fade through the 2010s.

At time of writing, Amazon hasn’t confirmed Deadline’s report, however Brubaker has a historical past with the streamer, having govt produced and written for its 2019 sequence Too Outdated to Die Younger with Nicholas Winding Refn. That, and two of Prime Video’s greater sequence for the time being, The Boys and Invincible, are primarily based on indie comics. It looks like one thing within the streamer’s wheelhouse, so we should always hear official affirmation sooner or later within the close to future.

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