Astro City Television Show in the works

‘Astro City’ TV Series Based On Comics In Works At FremantleMedia North America

Color me ambivalent about this news. I think it's an interesting idea, but I wonder how they'll do it. I couldn't imagine it being something other than an anthology series, but we'll see.

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  • It probably should be an anthology series, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was kind of like Legends of Tomorrow, with a core cast and several players who get rotated out.

  • Considering how successful Black Mirror has been, I wouldn't be surprised if it did turn out to be an anthology series. I could see "Black Mirror with superheroes" being a pitch a network could get behind. 

  • Without seeing the title, it should be recognizable as Astro City. I like to see creator-owned properties generating profits but hate when they deviate too much from their basis. I know that movies and TV have different needs, but comics are cinematic and be relatively easy to adapt. I hope that Kurt Busiek's ending the periodical means that he will be deeply involved in the series.

    Thomas Lupo said:

    It should be like the book. It’s about Astro City First then the heroes that inhabit it.

  • It would need a lot of money to be done right, and as we know, they should adapt existing comic book stories rather than have TV writers make them up. But I doubt either thing will happen outside of Netflix.

  • Richard Willis said:

    Without seeing the title, it should be recognizable as Astro City. I like to see creator-owned properties generating profits but hate when they deviate too much from their basis. I know that movies and TV have different needs, but comics are cinematic and be relatively easy to adapt. I hope that Kurt Busiek's ending the periodical means that he will be deeply involved in the series.

    I got the latest issue of Astro City, and on the letters page Kurt Busiek said the intention is turn the book from a monthly to a series of graphic novels. 

  • ClarkKent_DC said:

    I got the latest issue of Astro City, and on the letters page Kurt Busiek said the intention is turn the book from a monthly to a series of graphic novels. 

    Yes, I know, but not having to produce a periodical on a more-or-less regular schedule should allow him time to be involved in the series. 

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