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This news is a couple of months old now, but despite doing a forum search and looking back 10 pages, I couldn't see anything about it. So I figured I'd start a thread on the subject:
http://www.mania.com/scalped-headed-for-tv_article_118748.html
Comics2Film at Mania.com has learned that one of the priorities for the newly-formed DC Entertainment is a TV show based on Jason Aaron's outstanding Vertigo title 'Scalped'.
Call it 'The Wire' on a reservation or 'The Sopranos' on a reservation, the book is gritty mix of crime fiction set in the world of modern Native Americans. The protagonist is a boozing, bitter young tough guy named Dashiell Bad Horse who returns to the Prairie Rose Indian Reservation where he was born. There he becomes muscle for Lincoln Red Crow, the highly-corrupt chief of the Oglala Lakota tribe there. But the embittered, self-hating Dashiell is actually an FBI agent, working to bring Red Crow down from the inside.
Sources tell us that DC has been working to set the project up since the book's debut in 2007, and efforts are likely to intensify under the newly formed Entertainment brand. The project has attracted an ongoing parade of high-profile writers eager to pitch it around, but thus far has been unable to find the right home for it. Apparently they're committed to a TV series, rather than a feature film, in order to accommodate Aaron's slowly unfolding thriller of a story.
With outlets like FX, HBO and Showtime producing great, edgy fare a 'Scalped' TV show seems like a no-brainer to C2F.
So what do you think? I don't know, a lot of people say Scalped is like an HBO drama in the vein of The Wire or The Sopranos, but while it's certainly closer in execution to those than a 2 hour movie, I think the unique pacing of the story will be difficult to adapt to any medium outside of the comic book. Jason Aaron's writing is brilliant, but often the drama is internal, and the book has been known to devote several issues to dwelling on a single moment from a variety of perspectives. More than, say, The Walking Dead, I think going off on a different road from the source material and doing its own thing in order to include more action would be necessary.
I'm not even going to attempt any fantasy casting, though, as with a story like this, with it's largely Native American cast of characters, I think the best route to go for authenticity would be to seek out unknown, bona fide Native American actors. But what channel would we like to see it on? I actually think Showtime could be a really good fit for it.
http://www.mania.com/scalped-headed-for-tv_article_118748.html
Comics2Film at Mania.com has learned that one of the priorities for the newly-formed DC Entertainment is a TV show based on Jason Aaron's outstanding Vertigo title 'Scalped'.
Call it 'The Wire' on a reservation or 'The Sopranos' on a reservation, the book is gritty mix of crime fiction set in the world of modern Native Americans. The protagonist is a boozing, bitter young tough guy named Dashiell Bad Horse who returns to the Prairie Rose Indian Reservation where he was born. There he becomes muscle for Lincoln Red Crow, the highly-corrupt chief of the Oglala Lakota tribe there. But the embittered, self-hating Dashiell is actually an FBI agent, working to bring Red Crow down from the inside.
Sources tell us that DC has been working to set the project up since the book's debut in 2007, and efforts are likely to intensify under the newly formed Entertainment brand. The project has attracted an ongoing parade of high-profile writers eager to pitch it around, but thus far has been unable to find the right home for it. Apparently they're committed to a TV series, rather than a feature film, in order to accommodate Aaron's slowly unfolding thriller of a story.
With outlets like FX, HBO and Showtime producing great, edgy fare a 'Scalped' TV show seems like a no-brainer to C2F.
So what do you think? I don't know, a lot of people say Scalped is like an HBO drama in the vein of The Wire or The Sopranos, but while it's certainly closer in execution to those than a 2 hour movie, I think the unique pacing of the story will be difficult to adapt to any medium outside of the comic book. Jason Aaron's writing is brilliant, but often the drama is internal, and the book has been known to devote several issues to dwelling on a single moment from a variety of perspectives. More than, say, The Walking Dead, I think going off on a different road from the source material and doing its own thing in order to include more action would be necessary.
I'm not even going to attempt any fantasy casting, though, as with a story like this, with it's largely Native American cast of characters, I think the best route to go for authenticity would be to seek out unknown, bona fide Native American actors. But what channel would we like to see it on? I actually think Showtime could be a really good fit for it.
