Astro City Television Series in the Works

FremantleMedia North America is set to develop a television series based on the Astro City comic book series. Fremantle announced on Friday that they havve picked up the rights to Kurt Busiek, Brent Anderson and Alex Ross’ award-winning comic book series, which explores the lives of ordinary people and those of the all-too-human superhumans in their midst, and their collective, daily struggle to hold on to hope in the face of world-shaking, life-altering events beyond any single individual’s control. A mid-sized American city blessed with, and cursed by, the largest number of superheroes and supervillains in one place on Earth, Astro City is a unique brand of humanistic saga — part superhero epic, part intimate drama — in which the (mostly) good-hearted, workaday residents of the eponymous locale come into daily contact with the worrisome, the weird and the wondrous.

Astro City is currently published by DC Comics, having begun its run with Image Comics in 1995. The pilot episode will be written by Busiek and Rick Alexander. Both serve as executive producers along with Gregory Noveck.

Busiek said, “It’s a thrill to be working with Rick, Gregory and FremantleMedia on this. Everyone, at every turn, is supportive, helpful and completely focused on capturing the feel of ‘Astro City’ and bringing it to life as a TV show. I can’t wait to see it all take wing.”