The filmmaking duo of Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden have been very successful, but they scored the biggest hit of their career when they directed MCU film Captain Marvel, earning over $1 billion. And now they’re hoping to land another hit on a different comic book adaptation, Amazon’s streaming series Criminal.
Deadline reports that Fleck and Boden will direct the first four episodes of Criminal, which is based on Sean Phillips and Ed Brubaker’s popular comic book first published through Marvel’s Icon imprint, then later by Image Comics.
Criminal takes place in the fictional Center City and follows various characters and their criminal activities. While each storyarc is self-contained, the characters are connected by two generations of crime.
Brubaker will act as writer, exec-producer, and co-showrunner alongside Jordan Harper. Working in TV is something Brubaker has been doing a lot of lately. The comic book book scribe wrote for HBO’s Westworld, and co-created Too Old to Die Young with Nicolas Winding Refn.
Fleck and Boden’s next film is the period comedy Freaky Tales (review here) that was a hit on opening night at Sundance.
