decently now , Prime Video is on a reasonably good streak with adapting various properties to television set . BetweenCritical Role , Jack Reacher , andInvincible , plus its various original serial , the streamer is skilful about finding something for a special niche .
PerDeadline , Prime Video is currently finalizing plan to accommodate Image Comics ’ crime series Criminal . Written by Ed Brubaker ( Batman , Uncanny X - Men ) and drawn by Sean Phillips ( Hellblazer , Kill or Be kill ) , the series already has Brubaker tapped as an executive producer and showrunner , and a writers room is reportedly already going . The comics writer has been a part of the TV world for years , and most latterly was the executive producer and head writer for HBO Max’sBatman : Caped Crusader , which is currently being shopped around toother streamers .
Released in 2006 , Criminal has previouslybeen describedby Brubaker as “ the interweaving saga of several generations of family tied together by the crimes and slaying of the past . ” Each story spark is self - contained and focalise on a dissimilar set of characters be in Center City , all of whom patronise the same bar and have similar upbringings in the crime reality . The book was originally part of Marvel Comics ’ Icon imprint before being republish by Image in 2019 , and its last outlet issue back in 2020 . Brubaker and Phillips have been longtime collaborators for years , having created fellow mental image books Kill or Be Killed , Fatale , and The Fade during the 2010s .
Image: Sean Phillips/Image Comics
At time of writing , Amazon has n’t confirm Deadline ’s report , but Brubaker has a history with the streamer , having executive director grow and written for its 2019 series Too Old to Die Young with Nicholas Winding Refn . That , and two of Prime Video ’s bigger series at the moment , The Boys and Invincible , are based on indie comics . It feels like something in the streamer ’s pilothouse , so we should see prescribed verification at some head in the skinny future .
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