TV News: ABC likes “Fables” for development!
By Justin and Kevin
Looks like Heroes and Smallville will not be the only comic book style show on TV much longer. According to The Hollywood Reporter, it looks like DC Comics’ Fables will be going to ABC.
The article mentions that “Six Degrees” scribes are penning the pilot though the production arm of Warner’s TV.
“Six Degrees” creators/executive producers Stu Zicherman and Raven Metzner are penning the script for the hourlong drama set at Warner Bros. TV.
David Semel has come on board to direct “Fables,” which revolves around characters from fairy tales and folklore living in exile in modern-day New York.
“Their lives become interconnected in vary big way,” Zicherman said. “They share a secret and a bond.”
The two developers couldn’t elaborate on the characters that we would see in the show but that the show is designed to allow any character to come in.
Zicherman and Metzner…noted that Big Bad Wolf and Snow White, who are central to the comics, will have a similar role on the show.
The comic book series’ first storyline followed Fabletown’s sheriff, a reformed and pardoned Big Bad Wolf, who investigates the murder of Snow White’s party-girl sister, Rose Red.
“We set up a structure to allow any fairy tale character to show up in any one episode,” Metzner said.
The fairy tale characters will keep some of their trademark characteristics. For instance, Prince Charming will be handsome, while Big Bad Wolf will have to shave a four-day shadow 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 show sounds totally cool! I have never read the comic but rest assured I will nab some issues at my comic book store this week and check it out! This seems like a really good show pick-up by ABC and it could be the replacement for LOST. (keyword - could be).
Justin says! - This is awesome news, ‘Fables’ is one of my absolute favorite comic series’ and I can’t wait to see it on the small screen.
What do YOU think?
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
