The industry has been eagerly pursuing TV adaptations of modern comics for a while now. 'Seeing Red,' a well-loved comic series featuring young adults with the power to stop time when they climax, is set to adapt to eight episodes on Prime Video.
Kumail Nanjiani, Emily Gordon, and Tze Chun are executive producing the Prime Video series, based on Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky's comics. As far as TV adaptations of well-loved modern comics go, we’d kind of assumed it’d be a while before Hollywood really got serious about Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky’s , what with its premise relying on the Standards And Practices-terrorizing question “What if time stopped every time you had an orgasm?
” But here we are, with Admittedly, Hollywood has been flirting with the idea of taking the series—in which young singles Suzie and Jon hook up, realize they have the power to stop time when they climax, and then take the obvious next step of using this ability to rob banks—into the TV realm for nearly a decade at this point, although no further movement was detected until this January. That was when it was revealed that husband-wife team Kumail Nanjiani and Emily Gordon were developing the show, with Nanjiani in a starring role; it’s now been revealed that thatmean he’ll be playing male lead Jon, but will still co-star in the series.
star has an energy that matches Suzie’s wry, mischievous take on both sex in general and her powers specifically, while Reynolds is simply a dead-on physical match for the bookish, somewhat awkward Jon.
is set to run for eight episodes on Prime Video. The original comic series went for 31 issues between 2013 and 2020.
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