While writing for DC Comics, Brubaker revamped Catwoman with artist Darwyn Cooke and was the co-creator of Gotham Central. It’s just been a ghost haunting the series, as Teeg Lawless has become one of the most popular characters in the comic.”īrubaker is one of the most celebrated comic writers, receiving numerous accolades and winning both the Eisner and Harvey Awards for Best Writer five times. Before we even met Teeg, we knew that he had died when his son was a teenager, but other than the identity of his killer, we have never told the rest of that story. “And one of the big events in many of these characters’ pasts, which has been referenced since the very first Criminal story, was the death of Teeg Lawless.

“ Criminal tells the interweaving saga of several generations of families tied together by the crimes and murders of the past,” Brubaker explained to Deadline in a 2019 interview. As President of Legendary Television, Pepper signed Brubaker into a development deal there in 2019 and, along with EVP Development King, put Criminal in development at the indie studio, which is expected to get EP credit on the Amazon Studios’ version as a result.Īmazon Studios Takes Wing With 'The Blue Angels,' Imax Original Documentary On Military's Elite Aerial Unit Nick Pepper, Amazon Studios’ Head of US SVOD TV Development and Series – Wholly Owned, and his lieutenant Matt King, Head of Tentpole, Genre and Universe Development of Wholly Owned Content, are believed to have championed bringing in Criminal for development. A rep for Amazon Studios declined comment.

I hear a writers room for the potential series is up and running. EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Studios is finalizing deals for Criminal, a TV adaptation of Ed Brubaker and artist Sean Phillips’ bestselling crime comic book series, sources tell Deadline.ĭetails are scarce, but the project - written by Brubaker, who serves as executive producer and showrunner - is described as an interlocking universe of crime stories based on his award-winning comics.

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