ABC Brings ‘Fables’ to Life
Monday, December 8th, 2008
ABC has announced that they will be bringing the hit Vertigo comic book series Fables to the small screen.
ABC has handed out a put pilot commitment to Fables, based on the comic book created by Bill Willingham and published by DC’s Vertigo imprint.
Six Degrees creators/executive producers Stu Zicherman and Raven Metzner are penning the script for the hourlong drama set at Warner Bros. TV. David Semel whose credits include such series as Heroes, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, House and Dawson’s Creek, has come on board to direct the pilot.
Zicherman and Metzner wouldn’t elaborate which fairy tale characters will be featured in the TV series, but noted that Big Bad Wolf and Snow White, who are central to the comics, will have a similar role on the show.
“We set up a structure to allow any fairy tale character to show up in any one episode,” Metzner said.
The fairy tale characters will keep some of their trademark characteristics. For instance, Prince Charming will be handsome, while Big Bad Wolf will have to shave a four-day shadow from growing back every day.
But overall, “they are just like real people in the real world who live and breathe and look just like you and me,” Metzner said.
Describing themselves as “lifetime comic book fans,” Zicherman and Metzner fell in love with Fables when they read the series’ first issue in 2002.
Created and written by Bill Willingham in 2002, Fables has won fourteen Eisner Awards. Based in a world where fairy tale characters have been forced out of their homes by a mysterious enemy known as the Adversary, and now live in a hidden community in New York City known as Fabletown. The series’ first storyline followed Fabletown’s sheriff, a reformed and pardoned Big Bad Wolf, who investigates the murder of Snow White’s party-girl sister, Rose Red.
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Not sure about this. I always feel like the Vertigo stuff would work better on showtime/HBO as it’s still somewhat adult and at times graphic. Could work.
There’s some things in Fables that is graphic (mostly language and nudity), but IMO none of it NEEDS to be there. In Preacher, the graphic bits NEED to be there, they’re important to the story being told.
With Fables, I think that the strong language and nudity are important to the comic because it helps with making the Fable characters feel real. Make a comic about Pinocchio and Cinderella in real life, it might be hard to convey the realism using just the story. But make a comic where Pinocchio curses like a sailor and Cinderella is banging Prince Charming on a regular basis, and the world instantly feels real.
BUT, when you’re doing a television series in live action, the series is already realistic. You can physically see the characters walking around in the “real world”. So you don’t need the language and nudity to do it. I think it’s going to be a great fit with ABC’s new whimsical attitude as of late.
Like all adult comic books, you have to ask yourself whether the story would still be as good without the language, and what not. In this case i think so, the stories are still good, and it doesn’t need to be graphic to be good. I’m excited about this.
I know absolutely nothing about the comic, but the concept sound perfect for a television series.
You ABC fuckers!!! Just when I thought I was out when you cancelled Pushing Daisies, you pulled me back in! DAMN YOU!!!!
Woah, why don’t we watch the language there…
SpikeBad is part of this utopian society where injecting unnessacary curse words into statements adds on to your life span. I read about it in National Geographic
The good die young, but pricks live forever!
Intriguing. I’ve been a long-time fan of Fables. I dunno… this seems like one of those things where it’ll either be a fun cult show…. or fall flat on its face.
We’ll see I guess, with bated breath. :)
Ooohh… they best be keeping the love story between (edited for spoilers) ‘else I’m out for blood ABC.
Oops. Sorry, didn’t realize it was a spoiler…
My apologies.