Love and heists are in the air, as Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky’s Sex Criminals comic is becoming a TV series.
Per Deadline, Prime Video’s given an eight-episode, full series order to the adaptation. Spearheading the effort are Gotham writer Tze Chun and moviemaking couple Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani, the latter of whom will star in the show. First released in 2013, the Image series centers on Suzie and Jon, two people who separately discover they have the power to stop time during sex. When they meet and learn they share this ability, they decide to stay together, have sex, and also rob the bank Jon works at.
“Sex Criminals is the exact kind of thing Winter Coat [Films] aims to bring to life: love stories in weird places,” said Gordon and Nanjiani. “From the moment LuckyChap brought us Matt and Chip’s comic book, we knew we wanted to bring these characters to screen and are so excited to do that alongside Tze Chun and Prime Video.”
“We’re overjoyed to have such talented people bring our dumb comic to life,” said Fraction and Zdarsky.
Fraction previously tried to get a TV adaptation off the ground in 2015 with wife and fellow comics writer Kelly Sue DeConnick, but those plans ultimately stalled. For Prime Video, it’s the streamer’s latest adaptation of an Image Comic after the soon-to-return Invincible and the short-lived Paper Girls.
The 2020s also brought Prime Video’s adaptation of another high-profile comic, The Boys, with Spider-Man Noir and Criminal also in the works.
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