Hulu Orders Pilot Based on Vertigo Comic Sweet Tooth

Hulu has given a pilot order to a television series based on the Vertigo comic book Sweet Tooth, according to a new report. Per Deadline, Robert Downey Jr. and Susan Downey’s Team Downey production company will develop the series along with Jim Mickle and Warner Bros. TV. Jim Mickie will write the pilot and executive produce alongside Robert Downey Jr., Susan Downey, Amanda Burell, and Linda Moran.

Sweet Tooth centers on Gus, a human/deer hybrid who leaves his home only to discover the world has been ravaged by disaster. Soon, he befriends other human/animal hybrids as they set out to understand what happened, only to reveal the vast conspiracy behind their very existence.