In Bill Willngham ’s comic rule book epic Fables , Snow White , the Big Bad Wolf , Prince Charming , and scores of other characters from folklore are pressure to know together in deportation in Manhattan . Now ABC is provide them all a chance at life on television . The mesh has ordered a pilot based on the tribulation and tribulations of these fabled characters living in our innovative world .
The Fables pilot is being written by Stu Zicherman and Raven Metzner , creator of the short - lived ABC serial publication Six Degrees , and will be guide by David Semel , who also directed the pilots for Heroes and My Own Worst Enemy . The comic Koran serial follows a group of Fables , characters from fairytales and folklore , who flee their magical Homelands after they are conquered by the mysterious Adversary . The Fables arrive in our “ Mundy ” world and build their own society , Fabletown , based in Manhattan .
There is no password on whether the pilot will follow the first Good Book in the serial , in which Fabletown deputy mayor Snow White and sheriff Bigby Wolf look into the murder of Snow White ’s sis Rose Red . But the writers promise that Snow White and Bigby will have likewise central roles in the show as they do in the comic Holy Writ .
“ We localize up a social structure to allow any fairy tale character to show up in any one episode , ” Metzner said .
The fairy narrative characters will keep some of their hallmark feature . For example , Prince Charming will be bountiful , while Big Bad Wolf will have to plane a four - day trace from growing back every day .
But overall , “ they are just like real people in the real world who live and breathe and look just like you and me , ” Metzner said .
This is n’t the first clock time a web has try its hand at adapting the serial . In 2005 , NBC order a script for a Fables series , but never made it to production . If ABC ultimately resolve to pick up Fables as a series , it could appear on the 2009 - 2010 tv set schedule .
[ The Hollywood Reporter ]
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