Prime Video partners with Ed Brubaker & Sean Phillips to adapt comic series ‘Criminal’

Ed Brubaker (Source: Amazon/Gerry Duggan)

Amazon streamer Prime Video has ordered a series adaptation of Criminal, the graphic novel series created by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips, who will both serve as executive producers on the show.

Criminal is an “interlocking universe of crime stories,” based on the original comic series that launched in 2006. Brubaker, who wrote the graphic novel and the pilot script, will co-showrun with crime fiction author Jordan Harper.

Produced by Amazon MGM Studios, alongside Legendary Television, Phillips, Sarah Carbiener, and Phillip Barnett will also exec produce.

Brubaker and Phillips are renowned as a co-creators of successful crime comics and are also behind titles such as The Fade Out, Kill Or Be Killed, Reckless and Pulp.

Separately, Brubaker has written key arcs for Marvel and DC Comics including Batman, Catwoman, The Immortal Iron Fist and Captain America, including creating the character the Winter Soldier. Harper, who alongside his television work is the author of She Rides Shotgun and Everybody Knows.

“Criminal is a beloved graphic novel created by the most iconic team in the history of comics,” said Nick Pepper, head of US SVOD wholly owned development, Amazon MGM Studios. “I know our global Prime Video customers will immediately embrace this story, and I look forward to working with Ed, Jordan, and the team to bring it to the screen.”