Press Release
LETTER 44 Makes the Voyage to Television!
Series Based on the Hit Comic in Development at SyFy
Oni Press is thrilled to announce that Charles Soule and Alberto Jiménez Alburquerque’s hit ongoing series LETTER 44, has been picked up for development for television by SyFy!
The series, which launched last year to critical acclaim and a slew of sold out issues, weaves the intertwined stories of President Stephen Blades, the United States’ newly inaugurated President, and the intrepid crew of The Clarke, a spaceship investigating a possible alien threat in our solar system.
"As I see it, we're in the midst of a golden age for serialized television drama, and I could not be more thrilled at the prospect of seeing Letter 44 translated into another medium,” said Soule. “Seeing President Blades and the crew of the Clarke brought to life, and watching their respective journeys unfold, will be a truly amazing thing. Go space!"
Produced by Oni Press’ sister company, Closed on Mondays, SyFy’s LETTER 44 will be a Universal Television and Universal Cable Productions co-production Executive Produced by Showrunner René Echevarria (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Castle, The 4400) and by the pilot’s Director and Screenwriter, Jonathan Mostow (Terminator 3, U-571). Closed on Mondays’s Eric Gitter will serve as an Executive Producer and James Lucas Jones, and Joe Nozemack are also set to produce. More details on this science-fiction epic-in-the-making are expected to be revealed in the coming months.
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That's odd... I could swear I heard about this months ago... about when I first started really looking forward to Flash and Gotham. I'm not sure if this is an old press release, or maybe "picked up for development" is another step further along in the process from what I first heard about it.
Either way, this is either great news, or if not news, then just a welcome reiteration of fact!
It's actually an old press release. Being a newspaper guy, I don't get excited about "process" stories, and have routinely saved press releases of this nature for when the show comes out.
But the file with all those press releases was getting huge! So I decided to change my approach, and just post 'em all. Hence a raft of such PR today -- I'm not saving anything any more! It's the Internet, it can take the strain ...
Ah, okay!
This reminds me: I've got the first collection of the comic series on my Kindle. I need to advance it closer to the top of the virtual pile.